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From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Disconnect from SET HOST
Message-ID: <750@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 13:02:25 GMT
References: <7896@rama.UUCP> <880705095110.182f@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <880705095110.182f@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
 
> >   What I would like to do is set the remote terminal (RTAxx:) /DISCONNECT,
> > so we can disconnect while long jobs are running, and go hog some other
> > machine.  However, VMS doesn't let you set either the template device
> > (RTA0:) or your current device (RTAxx:) to /DISCONNECT.

One way around this is to use a DECserver so that you can hop around (or hog
around!) lots of machines at once.

	Hubert Matthews

(OK, so it doesn't solve that problem, but it *is* a valid solution)