DR01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU (D. M. Rosenblum) (12/12/85)
Consider the following situation. I am using a DEC PRO/350 running P/OS
V2.0 to communicate to a VAX running VMS 3.7. There is an Ethernet link
between the two, so I am using the PRO/Decnet HST program (invoked
either by the SET HOST command in PRO/Tool Kit V2.0 or by the Remote
DECNET Terminal item in the P/OS menus) to communicate. Now, I go into
HELP on the VAX (either HELP or HELP/PAGE; it doesn't matter which).
Suppose it asks me for a topic or a subtopic, and I type something in,
realize there's an error, and try to use the DELETE key to correct it.
Instead of deleting the last character, it takes the DELETE character to
be a line-terminator and apparently treats the line as if it contained
some non-null set of non-printing characters, because HELP gives me an
message about their being no help on <topic>, where <topic> is the path
of topics to whatever level I was on, with no printable subtopic
following.
This does not happen when I am using PRO/Communications to get through
to the VAX through the ordinary communications ports, nor outside of
HELP.
Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this?
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