[Info-vax] bizarre SEARCH bug (7.3-2 Alpha)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-11-12, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <qqeb6m$niu$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>> 
>> So the terminal can be assumed to be ok, but you didn't answer the bit
>> about whether the VMS terminal settings are different on the systems. :-)
>> 
>> For example, 7-bit versus 8-bit output, different VT types, etc.
>
> The DECterm is VT300_Series and the VT320 is of course VT320.  Both are 
> 8 bit.
>
> Even if they were different, there is no conceivable setting which would 
> be expected to affect this behaviour.
>

I was thinking about the _VMS_ terminal settings (ie: SET TERM) and
maybe if there were differences in output in 7-bit versus 8-bit mode
(for example).

However, Michael has now identified the likely real cause.

Simon.

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