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From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Re: Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice
Message-ID: <675@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 01:59:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 01:59:54 1984
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>In article <590@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>>One of the frequently undocumented features of Eunice is the fact that if 
>>FROM THE CSHELL one types "suspend" eunice will spawn a DCL job.  The
>>limitation is that no LOGIN.COM file is processed by this command.
>
>Another limitation is that ^Y won't work.  Woe betide if you say "dir/full"
>in a directory with 1000 versions.  There's no way to stop it short of
>killing the process.
>
>Larry Wall
>{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall
>
The reason for this is that either the LOGIN.COM file in ETC: or the
CSHELL.COM/SHELL.COM files in BIN: do a 
$  set nocontrol=y
In order that things like vi and others which use ctrl-Y as a command
character can function contentedly.  The way around this is to say

$set control=y

when you enter the VMS process.

I am not certain if this is process or terminal specific - that is, I do 
not recall with certainty whether or not exiting the DCL shell will
restore trhe correct state of ctrl-Y or if it is necessary to do so
explicitly.  I believe that exiting the VMS process does it.


Hope that's helpful.

Jon Shapiro