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Subject: Re: set host/dte
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 18:42:20 EDT
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From: ihnp4!houxm!hou2d!afb3@BERKELEY

Two problems.

First:

	If Typeahead is enabled, login/out will try to log the
	device connected to the port in (if it types anything).

	Try set /notypeahead  then allocate, then /typeahead...

Second:

	Set host /dte  mumble

	is wonderfull if going dec OS to dec OS "hardwired".
	Unfortunately, EVERY character going out gets preceeded
	by a ^Q.....  (It doesn't if you write your own )...

	Connect anything to the port, other than another DEC
	machine and OS, and all bets are off..  


I tried using this with our terminal switch and got no where,
because the switch thought the ^Q's were part of the destination 
name.  Probably your modem thought they were part of the
number...

Will DEC ever fix this one to be useful??  Will DEC ever provide
an easy way to disable logins on a particular port (ala RSX
set /slave:ttn:)???

Only time will tell (and sugestions from us, the users..)


Al Baldwin
AT&T-Bell Labs
...!ihnp4!hou2d!afb3


[These opinions are my own....Who else would want them!!!]