[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

[Jon Pinkley]

On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 1:18:24 AM UTC-5, Michael Moroney wrote:
> There is an EDT patch which makes it more ISO-8859-1 friendly, actually 
> prompted by a customer who used EDT for strictly ASCII except for a 
> character at the 'þ' position (but not þ). EDT fans may want the patch 
> for its ability to understand terminals with more than 24 lines.

The patch breaks some features when used with KEA!420 
(I don't have a real DEC terminal to test with).

If you have KEA!420 if you use gold 7 show buf it will not display the buffers

Here is what EDT on Alpha OpenVMS V8.3 looks like.  


Command: show buf
=T      1       lines
 MAIN   No      lines
 PASTE  No      lines
Press return to continue 

Same on IA64 OpenVMS V8.4-2L1


Command: show buf
Press return to continue 

The work around is to use ^Z to drop into command mode
*show buf
=T      1       lines
 MAIN   No      lines
 PASTE  No      lines
*
Then use c to return to screen (change?) mode.

Oddly it does work correctly with putty.

I have always found that KEA!420 was a pretty good emulator, but this is a 
case that putty works better, and it does support more lines.

If someone has a real VT terminal, it would be interesting to see if it
works correctly. (correctly meaning the way it always has worked before).