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From: Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: DECserver commands
Message-ID: <1674854@MVB.SAIC.COM>
Date: 27 Dec 90 09:04:45 GMT
References: <1990Dec24.002641.25565@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Organization: Science Applications Int'l, Corp. - Computer systems operation
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>{not quite a LAN but close }
>
>On a DECserver 200 V3.0, I want to:
>	SET SESSION PASTHRU
>before my CONNECT machinename command. 
>But it does not like this -- it wants a session first! 
>
>Short of establishing the session, breaking out of it, then setting
>pasthru, then returning {ugh!}, how can I do this? Can I chain commands
>somehow, maybe?
>
>I'd RTFM, but we don't have TFM -- it's another dept's server.
>Who knows where THEY have it.....
 
I'll make a perhaps unwarranted assumption here and assume that, with a name
like mthvax.cs.miami.edu, your host is a VAX.  If your VAX is running VMS then
the command $SET TERM/PASTHRU will also set the server's session to pasthru. 
If you are running Ultrix, it will perform the same way but I don't know the
actual command.
 
Come to think of it, all of the DEC operating systems I have used that include
LAT support (including PDP-11 based ones) will set the session to pasthru by
using the host's command to set a terminal to pasthru.
 
If you aren't connecting to a DEC provided O.S. then I guess I haven't helped
much.
 
Mark Berryman
Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com