VMS Workstation Software

This document serves as a comprehensive user's guide for the VMS Workstation Software, Version 4.1, designed for VAX workstations. It covers fundamental aspects of using the workstation environment, including window management, system configuration, and advanced terminal emulation features.

The guide is organized into three main chapters and five appendices:

• Getting Started: Introduces core workstation concepts such as windows, menus, pointing devices (mouse, puck, stylus), and function keys, along with the operator window for system messages.
• Workstation Options Menu: Details how to configure various workstation settings, including display colors, keyboard attributes, pointer behavior, printer setup, screen saver periods, and terminal emulation attributes for both VT220 and Tektronix 4010/4014. It also describes methods for modifying these menu attributes using system privileges.
• Using Windows: Explains practical window management tasks, such as logging into terminal-emulator windows, pushing/popping windows, resizing, cycling the keyboard, moving windows, and performing copy-and-paste operations between terminal-emulator windows.

The appendices provide in-depth technical information:

• Appendix A (Tektronix 4010/4014 Support): Covers implementation details, restrictions, screen addressing, setup support, ASCII character codes, and various escape sequences for Tektronix 4010/4014 terminal emulation modes (Alpha, Graph, Point Plot, Graphics Input).
• Appendix B (VT220 Terminal Emulator Features): Describes how to modify VT220 emulator features using logical names and escape sequences, including details on operating system command (OSC) strings, control sequence introducer (CSI) strings, device control sequences (DCS), locator input, and VWS Copy and Paste functions.
• Appendix C (Compose Sequences): Provides instructions and tables for creating special characters using three-stroke and two-stroke compose sequences for national and multinational character sets.
• Appendix D (National Keyboards): Illustrates keyboard layouts for various languages supported by VT220 emulation.
• Appendix E (Systemwide Logical Names): Lists logical names that control system-wide settings for both VT220 and Tektronix 4010/4014 emulators.

This manual assumes the VMS base system and workstation software are already installed and is a key resource for users to operate, customize, and troubleshoot their VMS Workstation environment.