[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Nov 11 16:01:58 EST 2021


On 11/11/2021 3:57 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> On 11/11/2021 1:40 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 11/11/2021 1:33 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <smji9o$4vb$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Michael Moroney
>>> <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>>> EDT fans may want the patch
>>>>>> for its ability to understand terminals with more than 24 lines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Will the patch become standard?  Not that I need a terminal with more
>>>>> than 24 lines.  :-)
>>>>>
>>>> It's a regular patch for VSI V8.4-2x and is already part of 9.X.
>>>
>>> Nice to see that EDT is still under active maintenance and even
>>> development at VSI.  :-D
> 
> It really isn't.
> 
>> Don't be too sure about that.  I believe Michael mentioned in the past
>> that he did the mod on his own, ie; not assigned work.  I could 
>> mis-remember.
>>
> 
> You remember correctly. The hardwired '24 line terminal' assumption 
> pissed me off and a few times I looked at it I said no way I can fix 
> that spaghetti code. But one day the planets were aligned or something, 
> and I just did it.

Macro-32 ?

Arne



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