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