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From: westerm@aclcb.purdue.edu (Rick Westerman)
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Subject: Re: Putting a modem on a LAT server
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Date: 17 May 91 20:44:35 GMT
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Having answered (I hope) Billy D'Augustine's question about connecting 
an outgoing modem to the VAX via an terminal server, I have a related question
for the *true* experts out there.

I wish to make my outgoing Hayes compatible modems be 'dial-back' modems. 
E.g., my users would like to dial in to an incoming-to-the-VAX modem, login, 
and then run a script which would then call them back via an outgoing-to-
the-VAX modem. The point behind this is to have the VAX absorb any long
distance telephone charges instead of the user doing so. However, I can't
get this scheme to work. I can use 'set host/lat' to connect to the 
outgoing modem and dial out manually, but the 'set host' program doesn't 
seem to take any commands from a DCL script. Am I missing something obvious
here? Also, I have a DCL script (DIALOUT.COM) from Kevin Oberman (LLNL)
which is suppose do a call back scheme using direct connect modems (which
I don't have -- is it a sign of the times that I don't have any serial lines
on my computers any more?) and I can't get the terminal-server-modems to 
work with it either.

Any help/advice/hints would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Rick

Rick Westerman                System Manager of the AIDS Center Laboratory
westerm@aclcb.purdue.edu      for Computational Biochemistry (ACLCB), BCHM
(317) 494-0505                bldg., Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907

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