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

[Henry Crun]

On 22/09/2022 11:10, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
OTOH:

see https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECCOLM.html et.al.
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Note

It is recommended that new applications use DECSCPP rather than DECCOLM. DECSCPP does not clear page memory or reset the 
scrolling regions, as does DECCOLM. DECCOLM is provided mainly for compatibility with previous products.

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