[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

[Winston19842005]

On 8/14/12 5:59 PM, in article k0ehns$450$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE, "Johnny
Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2012-08-14 13:46, Winston19842005 wrote:

>> I don't understand why this cannot be done on the client side?
>> Back when I was logging in via a terminal server to our Alpha/Vax systems
>> (1999 or so), I used a terminal emulator that had a mode where you could
>> completely type your command line, edit it if need be, and then send it to
>> the remote system.
> 
> How would that deal with when you do not want echo of what you are
> typing? Or when you actually are running in a mode where each keystroke
> are acted upon, such as when you are running EDT?
> 
> Johnny
> 

It was a simple switch from buffered back to the original terminal, just a
keypress away.