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

alanfe...@gmail.com alanfeldman48 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 10:38:12 EDT 2022


On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 9:03:22 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-09-24 kl. 06:06, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com: 
> > On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 11:24:48 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote: 
> >> 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. 
> > 
> > Fascinating. I just tried it using EDIT/TPU, and it works fine. It just fails with EDT. I guess the problem only happens running EDT in Terminal! 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> I use PowerTerm for an emulator. 
> > 
> > I don't. 
> > 
> > Thanks for checking! 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 
> >> --- Rob 
> > 
> > Alan
> Works just fine with EDT and Putty. 
> 
> Here I did SHO SYS, picked up my LOGIN.COM file in EDT, 
> switched to full screen, did quit from EDT and finaly 
> just scrolled back my screen session in Putty. 
> 
> The PACK11_PLC process was the last line from SHO SYS before 
> EDT was started. It is still there in the scroll-back buffer 
> after exiting EDT. 
> 
> 
> 00009206 PACK_11 LEF 11 2957 0 00:00:00.44 1752 1458 
> 00009A07 PACK_11PLC LEF 11 2357 0 00:00:00.40 1946 1648 
> $ edit/edt login.com 
> 1 $!-----------------------------------------! 
> *c 
> $!-----------------------------------------! 
> $! LOGIN FILE FOR USER: EDED 
> $!-----------------------------------------! 
> .. 
> .. 
> <ctrl-Z> 
> *quit 
> 
> $

Thank you, gentlemen!



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