[dexter1]

Hello Dexter1 and thank you for your kind reply.
OS is 6.5.22 and the tardists are from this repo:
http://fr.irisware.net/nekoware/current/
The native Irix shell is a nightmare! No tab completion, no history!
So Bash would help a lot.
Also, any ssh server would do! Currenty I can login remotely only with telnet (ugh!)
Vnc server would be a nice-to-have...
As a final note, I've got a lot of troubles with my usb keyboard with a PS2 adapter (ctrl and caps lock are inverted, esc doesn't work, etc.!!!)
Thanks a lot for your patience!
Cheers,
qzu

If you want to run nekoware per se, use http://fr.irisware.net/nekoware/beta/canavan/ as a base.
Rainer Canavan has good openssh and openssl tardist in that beta directory. As an alternative for vnc, try rdesktop.

As Raion explained, tcsh is a good choice since it is native to IRIX and a lot of shell scripts for IRIX use either csh or ksh. Bash is also possible as a replacement for ksh.


Does your keyboard have a us international layout? There are tools to customize your keyboard layout in IRIX if it has an non-standard layout.