Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!utorphys.BITNET!SYSRUTH From: SYSRUTH@utorphys.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Terminal locations - connected to DECservers - How? Message-ID: <8806151743.AA07389@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: 15 Jun 88 16:40:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 You will have to change things slightly, but the 62x0's come with V5.0 of VMS (they won't run anything lower), and one of the new features of 5.0 is the ability to find out which port of which terminal server is associated with the LT terminal in question. This is displayed as part of the "show process" information, and although I don't know the details there should be some straightforward way of getting this information. So you ought to be able to do something along the lines of: term=f$trnlnm("TT") port=f$getdvi(term,"LTA_PORT") server=f$getdvi(term,"LTA_SERVER") (though I'm not sure it will be available as a lexical function) and then base your assignments accordingly. DECservers can be set up to have permanent names as one of their characteristics (we use LATnnX, where nn is the floor number, 00 (basement) to 14, and X is A, B, C, etc. ascending for each new server added on a given floor); likewise you can define each port to have a fixed name, e.g. PORT_1, PORT_2, or a room- or building-related string. Thus it should be pretty easy to design a very nice system. All the details of all of this will be in the V5 manuals (release notes, too, probably) and the DECserver manual. It might even be fun :-) ! Ruth Milner Systems Manager University of Toronto Physics BITNET: sysruth@utorphys INTERNET: sysruth@aurora.physics.toronto.edu