text file edit

[Chris Sharman]

An excellent idea, but even a die-hard VMS fan like me would admit that's
slightly impractical for an HP shop.

That said, I think there are more user-friendly text editors for unix -
there's an EDT look-alike and I believe nu/TPU for VMS exiles, notepad and
the like for windows, and probably others ?

Alternatively, how big are the files ?
You can edit single fields up to 32k on unix powerhouse I believe, so if
that would do the job, you just have to find something to reformat it
afterwards.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olmos, Fernando(Sericon at Alcoa)
> [mailto:fernando.olmos@alcoa.com.au]
> Sent: 14 May 2002 01:57
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: RE: text file edit
>
>
> You're going to have to shell out to VMS and call EVE or EDIT.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madeleine D. [mailto:mmdrake@bctonline.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:48
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: text file edit
>
>
> We have a customer (HPUX 11, PH 813) who would like to be able to edit a
> simple, 80-char text file using PH, so that he can run it inside his
> existing menu structure.  He doesn't want to expose the users to VI.
>
> It looked like we could set a large USAGE type field in the dictionary and
> be able to modify the data with a scrollable field.  So far, that's not
> working out too well - the arrow keys don't work for scrolling
> and attempts
> to modify the data frequently kicks us out of the screen altogether.
>
> Are there any other methods for doing what we want to do?
>
> thanks in advance
> Madeleine D.
>
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