[fa.info-vax] Using Eunice VI from a MAIL procedure

info-vax@cca.UUCP (10/16/85)

From: <lars@acc.arpa>

After moving up to VMS 4.1, I tried (again) something that
failed before: Specifying (Eunice) VI as the editor in my
MAIL$EDIT procedure.

VI gets invoked, but seems to be unable to get single-character
input from the terminal. The effect is rather as if VI were driven
through a pair of mailboxes. But when I inserted a bunch of SHOW LOGICAL
commands before invoking VI, the SYS$COMMAND and SYS$OUTPUT were both
pointed to the terminal, and SYS$INPUT was pointed to the command file,
but could be succesfully redirected to the terminal.
EDT runs fine, why does VI not work ?
			/ Lars Poulsen <Lars@ACC.ARPA>
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