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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, September 25, 2022 at 1:05:22 AM UTC-4, Michael Moroney wrote:
> On 9/24/2022 10:18 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> > On Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 5:16:33 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: 
> >> Den 2022-09-24 kl. 17:26, skrev alanfe... at gmail.com: 
> >>> 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: 
> >>>>>> 
> >>> [...] 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 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 
> >>>> 
> >>>> $ 
> >>> 
> >>> Did you scroll up and down during your EDT session? 
> >> Just tried with a larger file (than my LOGIN.COM) and jumped 
> >> up and down in it within EDT. I could still scroll back to my 
> >> previous screen content before I entered EDT. 
> >> 
> >> EDT is my prefered editor and I would definitely had seen this 
> >> if it had been a problem. So, no, I have never seen this problem. 
> >> And I have used Reflection, Extra! and Putty over the years. 
> > 
> > Thanks! OK, the problem is with Terminal. 
> > 
> > Alan
> It may be EDT doing something goofy that was previously ignored by most 
> emulators, but Terminal/iTerm2 respond to, and may be responding correctly. 
> 
> I took (literal) screenshots of what EDT and TPU do on a VT320 in 
> "Display Control Characters" mode, with a mini editing session. I will 
> figure out what the various escape sequences are trying to do.

Looking forward to it. EDT full screen mode always seemed to reset the screen properly no matter how badly is was screwed up!