Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax From: DR01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU (D. M. Rosenblum) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Delete Key in VAX HELP Message-ID: <8512131009.AA15347@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 14:37:46 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8512131009.AA15347 Posted: Thu Dec 12 14:37:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 20:55:58 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 30 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa 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 , where 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? / DR01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU (ARPANET) \ / DR01%TE.CC.CMU.EDU@CU20B (BITNET) \ Reply to < DR01@CMCCTE (CCNET) >. Thanks \ DR01%TE.CC.CMU.EDU%CSNET-RELAY (CSNET) / \ DR01%TE.CC.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE.MAILNET (MAILNET) / in advance. ----