OpenVMS Differences Document

[Chris Sharman]

>All of these but "help", aren't a big issue for us. On the other hand, it
>is a major pain that the help facility is being removed.

I presumed we were talking about the help written by qdesign developers for
screen users, rather than PH documentation.

>New comments: Down on page 14, "Line Recall" is "undecided". I've only used
>HP and VMS, so I don't know about other platforms, but HP terminals allow
>"line block" mode to let the user reenter a previously typed line, from
>anywhere in the terminal's memory. The VMS equivalent is the up-arrow Line
>Recall functionality. Without this, your only option is to use the editor
>to revise the entire session, whenever you need to change something. NOT
>user-friendly. Our QUIZ users who have helped with testing our 8.20
>migration are screaming about this, and the programmers (who at least CAN
>use "revise") aren't real happy either.

I read this several times, and didn't fully understand it - I decided it wasn't
for me, since it said panel mode. We do use the standard VMS line editing
(control A, B, E, H) to edit in both lines & popup windows, and wouldn't want
to lose this.

>The other items listed as "Bug in 8.20" are nice to know (we'd missed a
>couple of them!) but this is hardly a comprehensive list. We're much more
>concerned about the QUICK access-violation aborts, incorrect retrieval
>order, blanking of date fields, and SUM INTO errors, and QUIZ "and to"
>linkage problems, than many of the ones noted here. The one _advantage_
>that I see to having a common code base will be the increased likelihood of
>bugs being spotted early (more users) and fixed across all platforms
>quickly.

Quick ACCVIOs are not new, I'm afraid: they're memory related problems, as far
as I can tell, and we get them occasionally on 7.10. I'm interested to hear
about the other problems though: these are presumably the unpublished delights
we have to discover for ourselves the hard way.

Regards,
Chris
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Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk		http://www.ccagroup.co.uk/
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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