[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-27 kl. 11:57, skrev Paul Richards:
> 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.

TPU is the default editor if you havn't redefined EDIT.

You can create an alternative symbol for "EDIT" in your
LOGIN.COM and that might redefine "EDIT" as "EDIT/EDT...".

I usualy have something like:

$ E :== "EDIT/EDT"

or:

$ E :== "EDIT/EDTT/COMMAND=sys$login:EDTINI.EDT"

"E" is less to type than "EDIT".

> 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?

EDT and TPU has separate HELP sections and help texts. Hard to
comment when we do not know what you have read.

It might very well be that your EDTINI.EDT file is just fine,
but you do not start EDT. We need to know what ou actually
put into your LOGIN.COM file.

Better to actually show what you did then trying with
descriptions that might be based on misunderstadings.