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From: egisin%watmath.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: Re: Interesting SET TERMINAL problem
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 11:34:38 EDT
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cc.lherzlich@a20.utexas.edu asks:
> We discovered an interesting thing about the SET TERMINAL command for 
> VMS 4.4.  We have an Apple LaserWriter connected to a terminal print 
> queue and were having problems with getting more than 2 pages of
> output.  It seems that under 4.3 we could say:
> 	SET TERMINAL /NOINTERACTIVE
> and we got proper flow control.
> 
> Under 4.4, if you set /NoInteractive on the terminal, it turns on
> Passall and kills flow control.  BTW, the combination of /NoPassall
> AND /NoInteractive results in the terminal having /PASSALL turned on. 
> 
Passall was replaced with Pasthru in VMS 4.0, in the release notes
it said passall would be undocumented and unsupported in future releases.
Interactive is just NoPassall, i.e. they're the same bit.

It looks like NoInteractive does not prevent logins in VMS 4.4 anymore,
and Pasthru never did.

I presume you want to set up the Apple LW line to a mode
where logins are not enabled, you can read/write directly to the line,
and you can start and stop a printer queue.
There is no such mode in VMS, I consider this a bug.
(at least not if you need type ahead, which you do in this situation).

What I do is set the terminal Spooled initially,
and I have a command procedure to either
stop the queue, NoSpool the terminal and allocate it;
or deallocate the terminal and set it Spooled.
I use these commands before and after I do `set host/dte dev$lw'.
I don't know if this meets your needs.

	Eric Gisin, egisin@waterloo.csnet