[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

[Paul Richards]

Tony: I'm new to OpenvMS so please bear wth me. It is not clear to me
which variant of EDT (TPU/EDT/EVE) is loaded when EDIT is invoked. Is
this defined somewhere? Where?

I tried $ EDIT /TPU /INIT=EDTINI.EDT NESTTEST.COB. I get a message 'Did
not finish execution of initialization file:
sys$common:[sysmgr]edtini.edt'. There were a couple of messages before
this but they disappeared before I could read them.

I've stripped edtini.edt down to contain only the Function key
definitions and this seems to have worked but I still get the error
message.

As far as a keyboard is concerned I'm running on a PC laptop with a
numeric keypad and PuTTy so I get, for example 'Num Lock' = PF1 (Find),
'/' = PF2 (Help), '*' = PF3 (Change Direction), '-' = PF4 (Command) and
the text editing control keys all work e.g. Ctrl-B, Ctrl-E etc. I have
a document which shows all these keys and it appears to be an EVE
document.

So I'm happy (mostly) with the key definitions but I want to find out
why I'm getting the error messages. Also, based on the previous
paragraph, what keypad am I emulating? (I said I was a newbie :-))

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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