RDESKTOP a Windows Terminal Client - VMS Implementation

Sometimes -very seldom- I have a need to use our inhouse Windows server, and want to stay at my usual VMS/DECWindows place.
rdesktop is a free client for the RDP protocol. It works as a "thin client" which you use to connect to Windows NT4TS/2000/2003/XP.
rdesktop was created by Samba team member Matthew Chapman and released under the GNU Public License.
Here is a quick port of rdesktop 1.3.1 for VMS in my rdesktop directory
Please take it as very preliminary: nothing optimized, especially the event loop, but it works for me.
File vms_readme.html explains details,changes,and errors I made.
Due to lack of time and resources, I do relatively little testing. If other users experience problems, please let me know Your findings, I will try to put it into this port.

Homepage for rdesktop is www.rdesktop.org
Get the distribution from there, and copy the few changed routines from my rdesktop directory , vms_rdesktop.zip over the original.
All changes are marked with "#ifdef __VMS" preprocessor directives.
vms_rdesktop.zip also contains DCL command files to compile and link.

2003-06-03 Email: huber AT mppmu.mpg.de updated: 2004-01-27