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Subject: Re: VMS dialout program
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 09:28:17 EST
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The cover of the DECUS catalog says something like 'Don't reinvent the
wheel!'  How true! For dailing out from a VAX, the best program I've
yet come across is VAXNET, available on most of the DECUS symposium
tapes. It's far easier to modify the autodialer code for your own particular
modem with VAXNET than for the stupid DF03_DTE.MAR dial routine for
'SET HOST/DTE'. I doubt you will need to write your own dialout program
once you get VAXNET, but if you do, the VAXNET sources are a good lesson
in asynchronous port control in FORTRAN.

Todd Aven
Systems Engineering, Inc.