[Info-vax] Keypad state in various VMS utilities

[Chris Townley]

On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 7:08:59 PM UTC+1, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
> 

That would make sense. So presumably no easy way to override...

Chris