15 Sep
2013
15 Sep
'13
4:12 a.m.
Sander Reiche wrote:
Hi all,
I'm finally starting to learn using a PDP-11 OS and one thing I'd like to
(continue to) do is working on some text. So I've starting to learn (or
cope?) with TECO. Found a TECO.SAV on some RT-11 Sigtape to run on RT-11XM.
But as the SimH console running the RT-11 is happy typing in lowercase
letters, it all goes uppercase inside of TECO.
Is there something I need to do to get lowercase working for TECO?
.SET TT: LC doesn't seem to work and doesn't seem to be needed as the RT-11
prompt happily accepts (and shows) lowercase. It's just that TECO seems to
be flipping the console or input to uppercase.
Any ideas or standard tips&tricks/hacks on using TECO on RT-11?
YEP!! On V36, try:
518ET$$
where the "$" character is the <ESC> character, of course.
The normal setting for ET is 514 which is obtained by:
ET=$$
In octal, that is 1002, so you add 4 to get 1006 and
lowercase characters are enabled. Does that work?
If you don't have V36 of TECO, it is available with the
V04.00 RT-11 binary distribution of RT-11 along with
many *.TEC files. Somewhere I have seen a manual
for V36 of TECO in text rather than PDF. If you don't
have access to the binary distribution of V04.00 of
RT-11, try to download it from classiccmp.
Are you using RT-11 for any program development?
Do you know about SDHX.SYS as the Symbolic
Debugger?
Do you ever use KED? On SimH which does not have
an internal VT100 emulator, it may be difficult to use KED.
Ersatz-11 does have VT100 emulation, so I tend to
use Ersatz-11 instead. In addition, I finally figured
out how to do repeated commands under KED, so
the only big advantage of using TECO disappeared.
The big disadvantage of TECO is the lack of support
for going back to the start of the file being edited.
KED supports going backward as well as forward.
AND if you are using the DOS variant of Ersatz-11
with a video card which supports 132 character text
lines, that is a big advantage. Otherwise, the Win32
variant of Ersatz-11 will easily support 132 character
text lines, but not in FULL SCREEN mode. Finally,
both the DOS and Win32 variants of Ersatz-11 are
able to support as many lines as your monitor can
support. I find that a big advantage with a new variant
of KED (named K42 for supporting a VT420) that
is available for users who want more than a screen
with just 24 lines.
Jerome Fine