W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA (08/04/84)
From: Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@Simtel20.ARPA> The problem of MDM7 "eating ESC characters" (in the terminal mode) is caused by the way you have an option set in the user overlay. Look for an equate which says it will "filter out" control characters. Change it so it does not do that. This option was put in for people who had problems with noisy phone lines and wanted a measure of protection against funny things happening to their terminals. When you change the equate, you'll get the full range of characters and EMACS and other cursor-oriented software on your mainframe will work properly. It's too bad that almost all of the overlays were distributed with the equate set to filter out control characters - this has caused a lot of unnecessary head-scratching and some people even quit using MDM7 because they thought there was something wrong with the terminal mode when they couldn't use EMACS. --Keith