Digital Equipment VT420 Manual de usuario

First

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November

1989

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this

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generates,

uses,

and

may

emit

radio

frequency energy.

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equipment

has

been

type

tested

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for a

Class

computing

device

pursuant

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Rules,

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designed

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frequency

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SERVIcenter

DECnet

'MASSBUS

SSU

DEC

server

200 MicroPDP

ULTRIX

DECserver

300 MicroVAX

UNmUS

DECservice

PDP

VAX

DECUS

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DECwrlter

Professional VMS

DmOL

Q-bus

VT,

VT52, VT100

LA12,

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Contents

About This Guide

1 A Look at the Terminal

VT420 Components

...............

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

TerIIlinal

..........................................

Keyboard.

...

....

. . .

. . . . . . . . . .

. . .

. . . . . . . 2

Your

Computer

System

.................................

Features.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Set-Up.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Two

Sessions

...................................

. . . . 4

Windows................................

..........

. 4

Number

Lines on

the

Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Page Memory

...................................

. . . 5

Copy

and

Paste

.......................

. . . . . . . . . .

. . 5

Status

Line

........................................

Keyboard Indicator

Line

..............................

Screen

Alignment.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Screen Background

..................................

Emulating

VT Series Text Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Character

Sets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Programming

the

Tenninal

...................

. . . . . . . . . . . 8

iii

iv Contents

Installing Your VT420 Video Terminal

2 Installation

Site

Considerations 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Installation

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 • 0 0 0 • 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0

Cable Connections . 0 0 0 0 0 0

••

0 • 0 0 0 0

••••

0 • 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18

Problem Solving 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0

••

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 Getting Started

Setting

the

VT420 for One

Two Sessions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Setting

for One Session (One Cable)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Setting

for Two Sessions

(Two

Cables)

.000000000000000

Setting

Up for Two Sessions

with

SSU

Software (One Cable)

Selecting

the

Correct

Baud

Rate

000

0 0

••

0 0 • 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0

00000

Selecting

the

Correct Terminal ID 0 0 0 0

••

0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Using· Your VT420 Video Terminal

4 The Keyboard and Indicators

LK401 Keyboard

0.00000000000000000.000000000000000000

Main Keypad 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Editing Keypad

00.000000.

0 0 0 0 0

••

0.00000000.

0 0 0 0 0 0

000

Nmneric Keypad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0

Top-Row Function Keys 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Compose

Characters

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

••

0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0

••

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Indicator Lights 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Audible Indicators 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •

Keyclick 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o. 0 0 0 0 0

Bell

00.

0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

000000000.000

••

0 0 0

•••••

0 0

•••

0 0

000

Keyboard Indicator Line . 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Status

Line

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0

Word Processing

Keyboard.

0 0 • 0

.0000000.

0 • 0 0

••••••••••

0 0 0 50

Contents v

5 Using

S~t-Up

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Independent

Setups

for

Two

Sessions

....................

Entering

and

Leaving Set-Up

............................

Set-Up

Directory.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Status

Line

and

Keyboard Indicator Line

.................

Set-

Cursor

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Action Fields

....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Set-

Directory Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Selecting Set-Up Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Changing

and

Recalling Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

How to

Change

Settings.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

How to

Save

Your

Settings.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

How to Recall

Saved

Settings

..........................

Global Set-Up

Screen.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Two Sessions

..................................

. . . . . 60

Display Set-Up Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Selecting a

Page

Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Selecting

the

Number

of Lines/Screen . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . .

Coupling

the

Cursor

the

Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

General

Set-Up

Screen.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Character

Sets.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Communications

Set-Up

Screen.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Keyboard Set-Up

Screen

................................

Ta.b

Set-Up

Screen.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

6 Typing Additional Characters

What

Characters

Can

I Type?

..................

. . . . . . . . . . 79

How to Type a

Character

Using

the

Compose

Character

Key . . . .

Invalid Sequences

......................................

Canceling

Restarting

a Compose Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hexadecimal Compose Sequences

.........................

Contents

7 Using

Two

Sessions, Windows, and the Copy and Paste

Feature

What

Are Sessions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

'I'w-o

Sessions

.........................................

Opening Two Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

You

Use

Two Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

You

Use

One

Cable.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Restoring

Interrupted

SSU

Session.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

SSU

Screen

and

Error

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Which Session

Active?

................................

Number

LinesiScreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

How to

Change

the

Number

LinesiScreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Windows.............................................

One Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Two

Windows.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

How to Select One or

Two

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Keeping

the

Cursor

Visible

............................

How to

Change

Window Sizes

......

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Panning

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

How to

Pan

........................................

100

Copying

and

Pasting

Text

...............................

102

Copying Text

into

the

Paste

Buffer

......................

102

Pasting

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Notes About Copying

and

Pasting

Text.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

8 Printers and Modems

Printers.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Connecting a

Printer

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Selecting a

Mode.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Normal Mode:

Printing

Pages

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Auto

Mode:

Printing

Text from

the

Host

System.

. . . . . . 107

Printer

Controller Mode:

Letting

the

Host

Control

Printing

. . . 107

Local Controller Mode:

Setting

the

Printer.

. . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Assigning a

Printer

'I'w-o

Sessions

.......................

108

Printer

Set-Up

Screen.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Contents

vii

Modems.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . .

...

. . . . . .

111

Connecting to a Modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

9 VT420 Programming Summary

Character

Encoding

..................................

113

3 Keyboard Codes

.....................................

120

Emulating

Series

Terminals.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Using

Character

Sets

.................................

122

Page

Memory

.......................................

128

7 Visual

Character

and

Line

Attributes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Editing

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Rectangular

Area

Operations.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Cursor

Movement-

and

Panning.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Keyboard,

Printing,

and

Display

Commands.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

12 VT420

Reports

.....................................

136

Resetting

and

Testing

the

Terminal

.....................

142

Session

Management.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

A VT52 Mode Control

Codes.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

10 Solving Problems and Getting Service

Operating

Problems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Power-Up Self-Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Error

Messages

.......................................

145

Digital

Service.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

On-Site

Hardware

Services

............................

147

Off-Site

Hardware

Services

............................

148

Software

Service

......................................

148

How to

Get

Service

....................................

148

viii Contents

A Specifications

Site

Planning.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 150

Operating

Environment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Display.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

LK401 Keyboard

......................................

152

B Supplies and

Docu

mentation

Modems.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Cables

..............................................

154

Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Ordering Information

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

C Communication

Cables

..............................................

156

XONIXOFF Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Modem Connections

and

Disconnections

....................

159

Break

Function

.......................................

160

Connector Signals

.....................................

160

Standards.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Glossary

Figures

1-1

VT420 Video

Terminal.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3-1

Set-Up Directory

...........................

. . . . . . 25

6-1

Hexadecimal Compose

Keys.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

C-1

Cables.........................................

157

C-2

6-Pin Connector

Pinouts

...........................

160

Contents ix

Tables

4-1

Keyboard Indicator Line

Fields.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4-2

Status

Line Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-1

Set-Up Directory

Features.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

5-2

Global Set-Up

Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5-3

Display Set-Up

Features

....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

5-4

General Set-Up

Features.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

5-5

Communications Set-Up

Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

5-6

Keyboard Set-Up

Features.

. . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

5-7

Tab Set-Up

Features

..............................

6-1

Key

Sequences.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

8-1

Printer

Set-Up

Features

...........................

109

9-1

Alias

Primary

DA Responses From

the

VT420. . . . . . . . . . . 140

9-2

ANSI Modes for DECRQM, DECRPM, SM,

and

. . . . . . 140

9-3

DEC

Private

Modes for DECRQM, DECRPM, SM,

and

RM.

141

9-4

Control Functions

forDECRQSS

Requests

.............

141

10-1

Common

Operating

Problems

.......................

145

10-2

Screen

Error

Messages.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

C-1

6-Pin DEC-423 Connector Interface Signals (Comm 1 or

Com.m

.......................................

161

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