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Terminal emulation recommendations for character cell applications on OpenVMS and Linux

What terminal emulators are you using for your Legacy DBL applications on OpenVMS and Linux. We have been using Powerterm, but it is not compatible with new versions of Linux. We are looking at SecureCRT. Has anyone used that product?

8 Answers
0   | Posted by Lynne Haberland to Synergy DBL on 5/14/2025, 5:32 PM
Erik de Jongh
I am using Putty release 0.83 though not all putty versions are working fine, this one comes close.

5/15/2025, 9:30 PM   0  
Eric A. Santos
We use Rocket Terminal Emulator (RTE) on OpenVMS.   I understand that it is available for Linux.

5/15/2025, 10:17 PM   0  
Allan Shikhvarg
Reflection. Love it because it has a Terminal Keyboard on-screen option (easy to operate all the F & PF keys)

5/16/2025, 11:52 AM   0  
Paul McMahon
We've always used SmarTerm by Esker, because of its good local printing handling.

5/19/2025, 2:10 PM   0  
Bill Ferris
I've used SmartTerm and Putty.   Both do a good job.  I prefer SmartTerm, as it seems easier to use.   But Putty is free.

5/22/2025, 9:11 PM   0  
Gayle Lewis
We use Dart Communications and embed the emulator directly into our Winform Application as a character based u/i option to our software.

12/15/2025, 9:28 PM   0  
Hank Vander Waal
We have used Reflections  for as long as I can remember.    as mentioned before  all the function keys are available 
 

12/19/2025, 2:10 AM   0  
Erik de Jongh
I've changed from PuTTY to KiTTY (free download) and it looks fine to me (for now).

12/19/2025, 9:47 AM   0  
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