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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-09-21, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 6:31:17 AM UTC-7, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> (snip)
>> 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!
>
> I often use terminal to ssh into Linux boxes. 
>
> It seems that $term is xterm-256color.
> It is also that on OS X itself.
>
> I haven't tried it from OS X to VMS recently, so I am not sure about that one.
>
> Does VMS know about xterm-256color?

I doubt it. :-)

Try setting TERM to vt220 and see if that makes a difference.

BTW, it would be nice if VMS did support colour. The z/OS style command
output would make the VMS command output much more readable instead of
the monochrome output you get with VMS.

Simon.

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