Qedit Production Web Page

This page is to let our Qedit users know what is available from our production version of host-based Qedit.

The current production version of Qedit is 6.6.

Visual Mode for HP terminals on HP-UX, will automatically turn on set Vis Blockemulation on. (HP-UX only)
Visual mode for Qedit/Open will no longer fail with unrecoverable file system error when using on xterm or vt terminals. (Linux Only)
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Qedit for MPE Change Notice
Qedit for HP-UX Change Notice
Qedit for Linux Change Notice

Qedit visual mode has been ported and added to the Linux version. (Linux only)
The behaviour of regexp window has been fixed in one corner case. (All platforms)
Help files are now working in Qedit/Open. (Linux Only)
Hold files are now working in visual and in other areas of Qedit/Open.
An issue was fixed when Qedit repainted the updated screen incorrectly after a block copy or move is now fixed.
Set vis above can only be 0. This is a temporary. (Linux Only)
Set Vis BlockEmulation has been turned on by default. (Linux Only)
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Qedit for MPE Change Notice
Qedit for HP-UX Change Notice
Qedit for Linux Change Notice

More work has been done to extend Qedit to work properly beyond 2027 date limitation on HP 3000.
Qedit for HP-UX now writes out the size of a fixed length file when making a file fixed length, with set keep var off. It will also write out a file as to whether or not Line Feeds are on or off. The files are local to your working directory under the names .qxrecsize and .qxlf.
The Qedit for Windows Server login now supports PAM, which in turn supports LDAP login.
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Qedit for HP 3000 Version 6.2 change notice
Qedit for HP-UX Version 6.2 change notice

The Qedit for Windows Server did not properly honour an administrative lock and other security issues.
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Qedit for HP 3000 Version 6.2 change notice
Qedit for HP-UX Version 6.2 change notice

The Verify command incorrectly parsed certain entries near the end of the verb table such as ZZ, String etc.
Calls to the Calendar intrinsic have been modified to use HPCalendar for 2027 mitigation. This is an ongoing process and should not have any visible impact.
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Qedit for HP 3000 Version 6.1 change notice
Qedit for HP-UX Version 6.1 change notice

Qedit on HP-UX now has the command set compatvarsub on which does not replace $-variables that are not defined with spaces. It simply passes the $token, thru to the Qedit command interpreter if the variable is not defined.
The Find command could potentially abort when printing the caret indicating where a string was located, if the record size and display size were greater than 132 bytes and the string found was beyond 132 bytes.
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Qedit for HP 3000 Version 6.0 change notice
Qedit for HP-UX Version 6.0 change notice

New features and bug fixes found in Qedit 5.9 for MPE and HP-UX include:

Qedit Server on Hp-UX now supports the Long Password feature described here, which supports >8 character lengths for Shadow Passwords. Improvements have been made to error reporting for login error messages. (5.8.10)
Qedit Server and Qedit host on HP-UX now supports Long Usernames (up to 80 characters) thru the 11.31 utility of lugadmin. (5.8.11)
Qedit now recognizes .cob and .COB as Cobol files. (5.8.10)

New features and bug fixes found in Qedit 5.8 for MPE and HP-UX include:

Visual mode updates would fail with Bad Format error if the length of the file was less than 52 bytes.
Qedit did not recognizes files with the extension .cpy as Cobol files.
The Text command would abort with Integer Divide by Zero error when trying to text in some large variable length and bytestream files. (5.7.11)
Regular Expressions. Qedit would improperly report the error "String longer than maximum allowed" if the expression specified is longer than the window of the rangelist. (HP-UX/MPE) (5.7.10)
Shadow Passwords. Qedit for HP-UX did not support Shadow Passwords properly for all versions of HP-UX. (5.7.10)

New features and bug fixes found in Qedit 5.7 for MPE and HP-UX include:

MPE commands with long Info= string do not cause stack corruption anymore.
A rangelist can now have an AND keyword with up to 10 search strings. All strings must be found on a single line for the line to be selected. Each string can have its own search window.

New features and bug fixes in Qedit for HP-UX only include:

Escape sequences to set/reset terminal tab stops appear in output file when Qedit's output is redirected as in
$ qedit > qedit.out
Qedit now resets the tab stops when running in interactive mode only. Redirection is assumed to be batch mode.

The following enhancements have been implemented in the Qedit for Windows server.

The server correctly returns error 90 when the modified record length is greater than the maximum allowed in the current workfile.

You can read more about the new features in this version at the Change Notice Page.

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