[Info-vax] macOS Terminal app. Numeric keypad fails for EDT.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/20/2022 3:08 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 10:02:40 AM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/20/2022 9:31 AM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Got my new Mac. Old one was running Mojave. Terminal on EISNER works
>>> fine for editing. My new Mac is running Monterey. I run Terminal,
>>> open a file in EDT, and the numbers on the numeric keypad do nothing.
>>> They also do nothing at a DCL prompt. Also, the PF1-4 keys work from
>>> F1-F4, and F12 is BEGINNING OF LINE.
>>>
>>> Is there some secret setting I'm missing? Or do I need a 3rd-party
>>> app? And if so, can anyone here recommend one? Thanks!
>> What terminal type does VMS think it is?
>>
>> $ show term
>>
>> If it is lacking in DEC_CRT* attributes then
>>
>> $ set term/dev=vt400
>>
>> or similar.
> 
> I never had to do it before. I always used $ set term/inq and it
> would work. That was using Mojave::Terminal. OK, I tried it anyway.
> Nope. Doesn't work.
If VMS knows the terminal type, then it must be the
emulators keyboard mapping that need to be fixed.

Craig posted some guidance for that.

Arne