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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Full-screen EDT
Message-ID: <8802220607.AA16956@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 88 10:19:00 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.

You can define EDTINI as a search list in your system logical name-table:
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM EDTINI SYS$LOGIN:EDTINI.EDT, -
                       SYS$LIBRARY:EDTSYS.EDT

of course, EDTSYS.EDT has a command SET MODE SCREEN
if SYS$LOGIN:EDTINI.EDT isn't found, EDT picks up the general EDTSYS file.
this eliminates the need for most EDTINI.EDT files in user directories

The same works for TPUINI.

Kees Noyens

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