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From: rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: SAM with 7.0 / Yellow Pages
Message-ID: <1991May21.112506.41@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 21 May 91 11:25:05 GMT
References: <1331@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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In article <1331@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>,
pearmana@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Andy Pearman) writes:
> 
> hhhmmm.....
> When SAM replaced reconfig in HP-UX 7, I wish they had written it
> to allow the "-m" option as in reconfig, so that you could run it
> in line mode on a non-HP screen.
> 
> Not having an HP screen in my office means a long walk to the Computer
> room to use the console to setup/delete users.

I suspect that more terminals (ANSI) will be supported with HP-UX 8.0.
Yes - it is frustrating that SAM (with 7.0) insists on defining softkeys
without checking the terminal type first.

Worse than that - try running Yellow Pages...SAM *does not* support this
(you cannot create/delete Yellow Pages users with SAM under 7.0 :-( :-( ).
I ended up having to write a massive shell script to cope with this...

On the subject of Yellow Pages, isn't it amazing how many packages don't
like it ? Not only SAM, but Ingres too and I bet there are others out there...

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