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From: JONES@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bob Jones [VAX-Man] Home: (614)447-0214)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vms
Subject: Re: emacs on the VAX???
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Date: 17 Jul 89 01:36:14 GMT
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>> Subject: Re: emacs on the VAX???
> For the umpteenth time: ^^^^^^^ does not necessarily mean "VMS".

Thank you for replying; however, the reason I assumed that VMS was
implied is that the name of this newsgroup is gnu.emacs.vms.
Needless to say, my machine is runnining VMS and I am looking for
an incarnation of emacs that runs under VMS.

The way VMS understands the different terminals is similar to the 
way UNIX does. [I am not a UNIX guru!] UNIX uses termcap and VMS 
uses TERMTABLE.EXE.  In fact, I translated a UNIX termcap into a 
TERMTABLE.TXT and compiled it into a TERMTABLE.EXE. [I did this for 
a Lear Siegler ADM5 for example.]  The next step is to:
$ SET TERM/DEV=ADM5 [In the example].

There is a whole bunch of routines [SMG$] that look at TERMTABLE.EXE
which make the the terminal type invisible to the type of terminal.
These routines are ofcourse callable from any high level language
like FORTRAN [Why FORTRAN!?!?!].

The only documented difference between termcap TERMTABLE.EXE is that
TERMTABLE.EXE does not support "padding" and termcap does.

Unfortunatly, EDT does not use TERMTABLE.EXE and there is no other
editor here that does. I was just hoping that emacs might work.

                         Bob Jones  VAX-Man