Hi Craig,

Thanks for your replay.
>
> Chris Breemer wrote:
> >
> >I have some minor quibbles with shell-iX and ftp on MPE 5.5.
> >
> >The posix shell is so slow in reading my keyboard input that I am forced to
> >type _slowly_ otherwise characters will get lost at random. Apart from this,
> >it seems type-ahead is disabled. This would also explain why cut and paste
> >with the mouse between hpterm's does not work like it does on HP-UX (I am
> >using hpterm and vt3k to connect to MPE from a HP9000 workstation).
> [ftp stuff snipped]
>
>    I've got the same set-up here and found the problem to be with
>    the vt3k that ships with HP-UX 9.x.  The vt3k that ships with
>    HP-UX 10.x has fixed the character-loss and cut-and-paste problems
>    when communicating with the (HP3000) posix shell; also, you can
>    enable type-ahead (even with the 9.x version) using the -t option
>    of vt3k.
>
Of course I was using the -t option all the time, but indeed the shell
turns this off if you use command editing mode. Turning off this mode makes
typeahead and cut/paste work fine, but puts me back in dark middle-ages of
command retyping (ok, I _could_ use the mouse now...) There's also telnet,
but that does not support typeahead yet and it does funny things to vi.
Aaarrrggghhhh ... There's ALWAYS a snag on MPE. Why can't they do it
properly to start with ?

And I am messing it up even worse... using the UX 8.0 version of vt3k on a
remote UX9 system to connect from my UX10 box to MPE. While I had vt3k on my
UX8 box, it does not seem to come on ether UX9 or UX10 as part of the standard
installation. The UX8 version still works on UX9, it does not on UX10.
I suppose I should get myself an uptodate version for UX10, it certainly
sounds like there's some improvement to be expected.
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:)
Chris Breemer                   [log in to unmask]
COMPUWARE EUROPE B.V.