Chapter 11: Using Your Terminal

Previous chapters explained logging in and using the system for the first time. This section will cover in more detail some aspects of your terminal session that will become increasingly helpful as you gain experience.

Terminal Settings

Many terminals today are actually software emulations, such as Telnet or SET HOST, which emulate a terminal and attach to a host via TCP/IP or DECnet. This chapter refers to these terminals under the generic heading network terminals.

Many readers, however, may use real, physical terminals attached directly to an OpenVMS system. This chapter refers to these terminals as physical terminals.

A physical terminal connected through a terminal server is somewhat of a hybrid; the connection between the terminal and the terminal server conforms to the definition of a physical terminal connection, but the connection between the terminal server and the OpenVMS system matches a network terminal. From the OpenVMS point of view, it is considered a network terminal.

Some terminal settings, such as terminal speed, may be largely ignored for network terminals. Other settings will be relevant to all users. Settings relevant to physical terminals will be shown first.