| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
HELLO fellow Amiga users,
I have a problem which probably someone(s) can help me with.
It's been discussed in previous topics, all of which I have read, but
I'm so new to this that I don't know how to get started in solving
it.
Problem: I simply want to access my VAX at work from my A2000
at home.
From reviewing this notesfile it's evident that there are a
few VT100 emulators in existence and a ready-made configuration
from Commodore. But all the discussions are about the problems
and features and I don't know the first technical thing about this
issue, so I get quickly lost. I've learned alot since I got the
Amiga, but this is my next hurdle.
I got ahold of a program called ACCESS (public software), but
have had no success running it. It's supposed to emulate a VT100.
Has anyone ever used ACCESS and can they help me with a few
suggestions for getting started -- or -- can anyone layout the basic
steps, using any available software, for connecting to a VAX.
Thanks in advance.
Ron
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4172.1 | 10 Easy Steps | ULTRA::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ BXB1 | Thu Oct 04 1990 19:05 | 74 |
| 4172.2 | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Probing the limits of adhesion | Fri Oct 05 1990 03:30 | 12 | |
For the record, Access! doe not emulate a VT* terminal. Youwould do
much better to use HandShake or JR-Comm...
Your best bet is to try to find someone in or near your facility who
can get you a disk with a terminal program on it. If this is not
practical, let me know and I can send you a disk with an excellent
terminal program and other vital goodies, like the ARC ZOO and LHARC
archiving programs that are needed to access software on the DEC
network.
Ed.
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| 4172.3 | 1 vote for Handshake, another for Smokey | CURRNT::POWELL | I admit it - I LIKE Vogon poetry!! | Fri Oct 05 1990 21:41 | 19 |
As someone who very recently went through pretty much the same problems
as yourself, may I just add weight to the previous replies and add
another suggestion just to confuse you.
The Excellent VT200 (for some odd reason also known as Smokey) is great
if you want to stick to 80-column screens. I mainly use it's brilliant
script language (?) for automatically logging in, but its so flexible I
guess anything's possible.
Otherwise, Handshake is probably my second choice - gives *almost* 132
column screens, but only autodials; no scripts (and also strangely
allows me to get 4800 baud connections from a modem that purports to
manage a maximum of 4000!!).
Finally, I started off fumbling around the comms world with Access!. I
like its visual feel, but perhaps because of the lack of VT support,
perhaps because I only had the basic 512K, I hated it.
David.
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