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From: IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  Full-screen EDT
Message-ID: <8802121822.AA29329@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 88 13:53:00 GMT
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Note that there are two sources of default input for EDT:

o       {current default}EDTINI.EDT
        To use this consistently, you have to have a logical EDTINI that
        points to the file, or scatter copies all over your disks.

o       SYS$LIBRARY:EDTSYS.EDT
        This one is system-wide.  At our site, we have a SET MODE SCREEN
        command in it, and logic in SYLOGIN.COM to DEFINE EDTSYS as a
        nonexistent file if the terminal is not ANSI_CRT.

If either file is not found, EDT just chugs onward.  If either *is* found,
it is executed just like command typein.

The documentation is *very* obscure in this area.  We had to do a bit of
experimentation to discover how it really worked.
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