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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Dec's QAR system  -- help
Message-ID: <13072@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Jul 90 11:22:00 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.021436.19659@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Jul6.021436.19659@portia.Stanford.EDU> kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
> We are a beta test site for some Ultrix software produced by dec.  I
> am supposed to be able to use their QAR (Quality Assurance xxxx???)
> system by modem, but their system does not recognize my terminal type
> (which I don't know either because I am using a fairly basic PC
> communications package (PC-TALK) and I don't have the documentation).

Why don't you pick up a half decent terminal emulator like procomm or one
of 13,000 others that will at least respond back to a terminal type query
as "vt102" or something the software should understand?

> 1) Is there a way to telnet into DEC's QAR system?
> 2) Is there a way of using dec net to get into the QAR system?

Probably not that they want anybody to know about...
 
> I would like to take this opportunity to FLAME at dec for a very poor
> implementation of the QAR system.  I logon to thier machine and it
> does not allow me to set my terminal type!!!!

Obviously, you haven't tried DSIN or the Digital Electronic Store -
you ain't seen nothing yet...  Admittedly, it would be nice if DEC's
software was a little more flexible, but it shouldn't be such a big
deal to find a decent emulator or even (gasp) a DEC compatible terminal
so you can cater to it's whims...  8-)

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