[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Johnny Billquist]

On 31.05.18 15:14, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <pemleh$c3q$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2018-05-30, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> wrote:
>>>
>>> I do not know how compatible C TECO was to the VMS supplied TECO.  Is
>>> there a validation test?
>>>
>>
>> The last time I came across it, it didn't have the DEC TECO screen mode
>> so you couldn't run VTEDIT (for example).
> 
>     Last time I ran VTEDIT, I thought it was just a bunch of TECO macros
>     on top of TECO.

Yes, but it do requires some rather special functionality in the TECO. 
Simply put, the screen handling itself is not done explicitly in your 
TECO macros. Instead, TECO itself already actually have screen handling 
functionality.

   Johnny

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