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Subject: Re: Decnet, remote terminals, and disconnecting
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 23:36:28 EDT
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From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA>

disconnection from DECnet logins:

The normal VAX - VAX DECnet does not provide for this since 1) RTA's aren't
disconnectable and 2) The local DECnet server RTPAD will not disconnect
without dropping the conection.

I have accomplished this by means of subprocesses running under control
of some agent (i.e. emacs) and running on a PTY.  The senario is:
Start Emacs; emacs starts a subproc in a window using a PTY; subprocess
does remote login; emacs filters all io and has an escape built in;
escape back to emacs; exit to DCL leaving subproc there. Later reenter
emacs, and the remote session.

This is all a big kludge but it works.  You could write a simple version
(all you really need is the PTY (look on next decus tape)).

DEC should look at how the DEC-20 works and see how they should do things
like this.
					Rg
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