Subject: Re: I want Citrix Metaframe Server for OpenVMS !!!! was (Re: OpenVMSMultisessions) OpenVMSMultisessions) OpenVMSMultisessions) From: "Zane H. Healy" Date: 1 Oct 2002 03:57:44 GMT Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Tim Llewellyn wrote: > yup, I'm finding the latest vnc release to be quite sufficient, apart from > lack of direct VMS support. What I found really irritating about VNC was that I was unable to have apps running on my VMS server display on the VNC session running on my Linux server. In other words, I fire up a VNC session under Linux, connect to it on my WinXP box, and then tryed to get DECterm, or DECmail to display on that VNC session, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to work. I finally gave up when I found a version of X-Windows that runs on WinXP (Cygwin I think), and set it up to act as an XTerminal for my VMS server. I just click on an icon on the WinXP desktop, and up pops the login screen for my VMS server. Not bad for some free software, though I must admit getting it setup was a royal pain. > As my ts10 hosted VMS installation runs pretty much like a MicroVAX II, > using vnc sure beats logging in every time I turn on the PC. For that you might want to take a look at 'screen'. I run KLH10 and the simh PDP-11 emulators under screen. That way I can run them detached, and access the 'system console' from any telnet session. In the 'tips and tricks' section of the PDP-10 page on my DEC Emulation site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html I describe how to start such a 'screen' session up in the background. Perfect for having the emulator boot your OS of choice as the UNIX host is booted. I've yet to try running either the ts10 or simh VAX emulation. I really don't see much use for running VMS that slow :^) Zane