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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-21 11:54, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 4:51:41 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2022-09-20 21:57, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>>> Am I the only one in the newsgroup that uses a Mac to access an
>>>> OpenVMS box?
>>>
>>> I use XQuartz > Terminal (xterm). With a little xmodmap action, it
>>> does what I need. I haven't noticed any new (xterm) trouble with
>>> Monterey (12.5.1, on a Pro (Late 2013)) compared with Mojave (10.14.6 on
>>> a Pro (Mid 2010)).
>> I use XQuartz as well, and you don't need any xmodmap action at all.
>> xterm works correctly directly out of the box, assuming you just tell
>> xterm that you want it to behave like a vt terminal, and so on.
>> Can be done on the command line, or through x resources.
>>
>> For the OP, I would also suggest switching to xterm. It is a much better
>> terminal emulation than the terminal app, it's free, and contains no
>> funny stuff at all.
> 
> Why? It wasn't the problem, and all is well now.
> Better how?
> Terminal contains no funny stuff I'm aware of.

To each his own. As always.
But I can tell that terminal behaves wrong when receiving a DECCOLM 
escape sequence. If you are at 80 columns, and the escape sequence also 
requests 80 columns, terminal do nothing, which is incorrect. The screen 
should be cleared. And I have at least some applications under RSX that 
knows and expects this behavior, so the screen gets really messed up 
when using terminal.

Actually, this is the first test I do with any terminal program, and a 
majority of them fail this one.

I haven't really tried to see if there are other problems/errors in the 
emulation. That one already disqualifies it for my use.

   Johnny