How to enable telnet virtual terminals?
To enable virtual terminal support for telnet and rlogin devices, add the following logical name definitions into SYLOGICALS.COM: $ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE TCPIP$RLOGIN_VTA TRUE $ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE TCPIP$TELNET_VTA TRUE See SYS$STARTUP:SYLOGICALS.TEMPLATE for details on the typical contents of SYLOGICALS.COM. In SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, ensure that a command similar to the following is invoked: $ SYSMAN IO CONNECT VTA0/NOADAPTER/DRIVER=SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES:SYS$TTDRIVER.EXE In MODPARAMS.DAT, add the following line or (if already present) mask the specified hexidecimal value into an existing TTY_DEFCHAR2, and perform a subsequent AUTOGEN with an eventual reboot: TTY_DEFCHAR2 = %X20000 This value is TT2$M_DISCONNECT. On older TCP/IP Services-versions prior to V5.