[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

Paul Richards paulrichards at iinet.net.au
Mon Jun 27 05:57:56 EDT 2016


TonyMcG wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> I presume you meant that you're defining the EDTINI logical in your
> LOGIN.COM, which is pointing to your EDTINI.EDT file.  When you enter
> a command like:  $ EDIT NESTTEST.COB
> with no qualifiers then you're starting the EVE (TPU) editor, not the
> classic EDT variation, i.e. it defaults to $ EDIT/TPU, not $ EDIT/EDT
> 
> SET RIGHT MARGIN 72 is a valid EVE command, invalid for EDT.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Tony
>   also from Melbourne, Australia.

Tony: OK, so I'm running EVE (TPU) when I enter EDIT. I didn't know
that. However all of the commands I entered in EDTINI.EDT came from the
HELP section of EVE/EDT/TPU so why were they rejected as invalid?

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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