Ah good manually running EDITOR pointed it out.

You probably have a UDC (or command file) that takes over when you type
only EDITOR one one of the machines and sends you to a "Hooked" version
of Editor.

A "Hooked" version of Editor does some interesting things.  It looks at
the first character of your Editor commands do thinks like:

- If you start a command with a "%", it will process your command as a
VESoft command.

- If you start a command with a comma, it will do a REDO, and parse the
next few characters so it does the previous command that started with
those characters.  Otherize a comma all by itself is a just a REDO of
the last command.

- If you start with TWO commas, it will do a LISTREDO with numbers.
Then you can follow with a single comma followed by the number.

- It may also allow QEDit style Editing for a single line, depending on
a config file in VESOFT.

- My guess is it parses the colon too, but I forgot which is which.

(All in the VESoft manual of course.  Look under "HOOK".)

Tracy Johnson
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Newton, Ernie
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] EDIT/3000 question
> 
> Thank you Tracy.
> 
> We do have VESoft on both systems, but they aren't configured the
> same.  When I say configured, I mean things like the SECURCON file
> and such.
> 
> And "RUN EDITOR.PUB.SYS" results in the same behavior on both systems.
> 
> Ernie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:10 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] EDIT/3000 question
> 
> Well if you have VESoft on one and not the other, that would 
> be another
> clue.
> 
> The cause would probably be a mix of UDCs and a VESoft trick called
> "HOOK".  I won't go into details.
> 
> But instead of just typing EDITOR try typing:
> 
> RUN EDITOR.PUB.SYS and see if they are behave the same.
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Office 1-757-766-4318
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Newton, Ernie
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:57 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] EDIT/3000 question
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We have two HP3000 systems.  One is a 929K the other is a 
> 939K.  Both
> > are on version 6.5 PP3 and both have the same version of
> > EDIT/3000.  It
> > looks like the version of both Editors ends in .09.00.
> >
> > The odd thing that's occurring is the 939 isn't recognizing 
> ":COMMENT"
> > as a comment.  It sees the colon and just exits.
> >
> > The 929 recognizes ":COMMENT" as a comment and simply returns
> > the "/" prompt.
> >
> > Any clues why this is happening on one computer and not the other?
> >
> > We do have VESOFT, could that be the culprit?
> >
> > By the way, my "favorite editor" is Qedit...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ernie
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