OpenVMS Notes: X-Term, X-Windows, etc.

The following hacks were done in 2019 using:

• OpenVMS-8.4 Itanium (patch 1200)
• a very old version of Reflection-X purchased from AttachMate (which was later acquired by Micro Focus). However, any X-Windows software package should work
  • caveat: in 2019, the best emulator may be X-win32 (version 19) which is the only known PC product able to connect to Gnome3 (Linux: RHEL or CentOS)

Steps:

• Once you are convince that basic connectivity is possible, then you can mess around with settings in the PC-software that will allow you to auto-connect.
• For example, pass the I/P address of your PC to a DCL parameter used in the "SET DISPLAY" command

Hacks

Hack #1

$! =======================================================================
$! title  : CSMIS$USER3:[ADMCSM.NEIL]DECW$HACK1.COM
$! author : Neil Rieck
$! created: 2019-10-28
$! notes  :
$! 1) start Reflection X Manager (or equivalent) on your PC
$!    settings>network: ensure your IP address is set correctly (my PC has
$!    two NICs and the X-manager always defaults to the wrong one)
$! 2) execute this script; if a puzzle application is not started then
$!    something is broken and needs to be fixed
$! =======================================================================
$ set noon
$ SET DISPLAY /CREATE /NODE=142.180.221.13 /TRANSPORT=TCPIP
$ r sys$system:DECW$PUZZLE.EXE
$ exit

Hack #2

$! =======================================================================
$! title  : CSMIS$USER3:[ADMCSM.NEIL]DECW$HACK2.COM
$! author : Neil Rieck
$! created: 2019-10-28
$! notes  :
$! 1) start Reflection X Manager (or equivalent) on your PC
$!    settings>network: ensure your IP address is set correctly (my PC has
$!    two NICs and the X-manager always defaults to the wrong one)
$! 2) execute this script; if a puzzle application is not started then
$!    something is broken and needs to be fixed
$! =======================================================================
$ set noon
$ SET DISPLAY /CREATE /NODE=142.180.221.13 /TRANSPORT=TCPIP
$!r sys$system:decw$winmgr
$ r sys$system:decw$startlogin
$ exit

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Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.