[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

[Jon Pinkley]

On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 1:45:36 PM UTC-5, Jon Pinkley wrote:
> 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).

I should have said 

Same on IA64 OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 with EDT patch applied