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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-23 00:44, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

They don't. They can only switch colors if you go into ReGIS mode. No 
ANSI escape sequences for playing with colors.

   Johnny