[Info-vax] EDTINI.EDT Issues

[Paul Richards]

abrsvc wrote:

> EDTINI.EDT is as its file extension would imply, for the EDT editor.
> EDT is invoked with the command EDIT/EDT.
> 
> TPU is another editor built upon EVE (Extensible Versatile Editor).
> TPU stands for Text Processing Utility.
> 
> The messages you are receiving are due to the fact that the commands
> for EDT are different than those for TPU.
> 
> Change your command to EDIT/EDT/INIT=EDTINI.EDT NESTTEST.COB and the
> initialization errors should disappear (assuming that the contents of
> EDTINI.EDT are in fact, valid EDT commands)
> 
> If you still have questions, post the contents of the EDTINI.EDT file.
> 
> ===
> In regards to defining the keys:
> 
>  In the putty configuration screen: under terminal keyboard, set the
> backspace key to be Control-?(127) The function keys and keypad I
> have set to ESC[n~    Setting it to VT100+ or VT400 should work as
> well.
> 
> When you log in to the OpenVMS system, perform a SET TERM/INQ and
> that should be all you need.  I work with this setup all day long
> connected to numerous client systems without any problems.  The
> kaypad works just fine and I don't have an initialization file.
> 
> 
> Dan

Dan: It appears that I want EVE so creating an EVE$INIT.EVE file
containing function key definitions has solved my problem, Thanks for
responding.

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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