[Info-vax] Keypad state in various VMS utilities

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-10-03 14:05:46 +0000, Chris Townley said:

> An old issue, but coming back to VMS I find it strange that many VMS 
> utilities seem to silently switch on the application keypad, seemingly 
> to no effect other than making numeric entry more error prone.
> 
> Any ideas why, or how to prevent it?

I suspect that is an artifact of the use of SMG within AUTHORIZE and 
other tools.
This SMG usage likely for command-line recall within the prompting.
SMG being old and crufty, but still eminently preferable to using $qio 
calls for any of this.


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