SETHOST(1)

💖 SETHOST(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section, we're talking about sethost today and honestly? she's a little vintage icon. 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

sethost — Emulates a DEC VT100 terminal

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sethost [options] nodename
Options:
[-Vh] [-e char]

like, you give her a nodename, you hand her some options if you're feeling fancy, and she goes. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

sethost emulates a DEC VT100 terminal. literally what it says on the tin, no cap.

This application implements the CTERM protocol over DECnet for connecting to a remote DECnet host emulating a DEC VT100 terminal. so you're basically time-traveling into somebody else's machine and pretending to be a terminal from the 70s. main character energy fr. 💅

heads up bestie: dnlogin is a replacement for sethost with more compatibility features. so if you want the glow-up version, that's where she's at. 👀

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -e <char> — Set the exit character. By default this is ^]. You can specify the exit character as a control character by preceding it with a circumflex, eg (^A means control-A), or as a number in decimal (default), octal (starting with a zero), or hexadecimal (preceded by 0x or 0X). pick your fighter, honestly. 🎀
• -h, -? — Displays help for using the command. she's helpful AND pretty. 🫶
• -V — Show the version of the package that sethost was built with. know your roots. ✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Connect to remote VAX host named "mv3100".

sethost mv3100

and boom, you're in. go be iconic on a VAX. 💜

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💀 HELPFUL HINTS 💀

okay so this part is a lil unhinged but stay with me:

The CTERM specifications available from Digital does not include how to setup VMS terminal characteristics, so the host cannot identify the capabilities of the session we are creating. like, she simply does not know what you are. it's giving blind date but neither of you know anything about the other. 😭

The simplest workaround is to set the terminal capabilities manually upon login, or to include the following command in the login.com DCL procedure.

$ SET TERM/DEC_CRT

do that and your session will lowkey know what it is. periodt. 🔥

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

dntype(1), dndir(1), dndel(1), dntask(1), dnping(1)

go read those too, they're all in the same friend group. 🍓

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DECnet utilities 🌟 July 27 1998 — yeah she's a 90s baby and she's still slaying, no notes, bye bestie 💖🌈✨