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

Robert A. Brooks FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com
Fri Sep 23 23:24:44 EDT 2022


On 9/23/2022 11:13 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:

> Say I run SHOW SYSTEM on EISNER. It's like a hundred-something lines. Say
> it's 160 lines. I run EDT. It clears the screen, brings up the file, I do my
> edits, and exit. Now I page-up to review the SHOW SYSTEM output, and the l
> last 30 or 40 or whatever lines are gone. If I had instead run, say, SH DEV
> DS, I get what,10 lines of output? Then I do a full-screen editing session.
> Then I page-up to see the SH DEV DS output again, and it's gone. Older stuff
> is still there, but the last n lines of what was there before I edited
> something is gone for good. Maybe you never do the page-up bit to see
> previous commands and their outputs.


It's your emulator.

I use EDT regularly and frequently scroll back to see previous output (whilst
in the editor and after exiting it).  I always see the output that had been
displayed prior to the editing session.

I use PowerTerm for an emulator.

-- 

                    --- Rob



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