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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/22/2022 10:36 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2022-09-22 15:14, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 12:41 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> VT100 supports ANSI color codes. In theory you should be able to do
>> this in VMS provided the terminal can parse these color codes.
> 
> Uh? A VT100 don't support ANSI color codes. A VT100 is very monochrome.
> But technically, any application that want to play with color can always 
> send the escape sequences required to make them happen. VMS isn't really 
> involved here.
> 
> xterm do support colors, as do the VT525, using ANSI color codes.

VT241 and VT340 was also color - I don't know if they supported
ANSI color escape sequences.

Arne