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TECO

Post by pkoning » Wed May 24, 2023 11:09 am

OpenVMS/X86 understands "edit/teco" but complains that teco32_tv is not found. I hope it's on the list, because doing without TECO is hard...

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Re: TECO

Post by dgordon » Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:33 am

TECO for Alpha and IA64 is a translated image. There is no translator for x86.

We should have removed /TECO from the EDIT CLD until we decide what to do about it on x86.
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Re: TECO

Post by pkoning » Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:38 am

Bummer. Yes, given its history (starting as a PDP-11 program) I'm not surprised. TECOC may be a suitable alternative, I don't know how compatible it is, should check.
If Python is or becomes available on VMS/x86 I could use my teco.py :)

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Re: TECO

Post by arne_v » Thu Jul 20, 2023 2:59 pm

Python for VMS x86-64 is still not available per https://vmssoftware.com/products/python/, but it would be reasonable to expect it to show up at some point in time - Python is a must have today.
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Re: TECO

Post by pkoning » Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:13 pm

Thanks Arne. I'm a heavy Python user so when it shows up I'll be able to give it a serious workout. (Hm, running DECnet/Python on a node that's also running DECnet/VMS is an interesting warped thing to do...)

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Re: TECO

Post by imiller » Fri Jul 21, 2023 4:32 am

pkoning wrote:
Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:38 am
Bummer. Yes, given its history (starting as a PDP-11 program) I'm not surprised. TECOC may be a suitable alternative, I don't know how compatible it is, should check.
If Python is or becomes available on VMS/x86 I could use my teco.py :)
teco.py? I'm intrigued, not that I've used TECO for a few decades except for text file conversions.
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Re: TECO

Post by pkoning » Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:35 am

imiller wrote:
Fri Jul 21, 2023 4:32 am
pkoning wrote:
Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:38 am
Bummer. Yes, given its history (starting as a PDP-11 program) I'm not surprised. TECOC may be a suitable alternative, I don't know how compatible it is, should check.
If Python is or becomes available on VMS/x86 I could use my teco.py :)
teco.py? I'm intrigued, not that I've used TECO for a few decades except for text file conversions.
You can find it on Github: https://github.com/pkoning2/pyteco -- it hasn't been touched significantly in a while but it works, except for character terminal scope mode which I have on the "to do" list.

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