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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Installing DEC-VT1300's and EWS
Message-ID: <1009@lhdsy1.chevron.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 20:08:59 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.194427.24929@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research, La Habra, CA.
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In article <1991Jun26.194427.24929@leland.Stanford.EDU> vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
>Hi. We just received the first of several DEC-VT1300 X-terminals and I have a couple of questions about installation and support of them:
>
>    1. Is it possible to support the VT1300's from a server system which does
>       not run DECNet at all?
>
>I would hope that the answer to #1 is "yes", but the references to the DECNet /etc/addnode and /etc/remnode utilities in the VAXELN documentation and in the /etc/ewsaddnode script suggest otherwise.

We evaluated the VT1300 and sent it back because even though it did not
use DECnet for communications (we were using TCP/IP instead), DECnet
"had" to be around because the installation uses the DECnet database and
naming convention (no more than 6 characters for the names, etc...)
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