Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!munnari!mulga!jas From: jas@mulga.oz (John Shepherd) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: MACRO Program to Drop DTR Briefly Message-ID: <2058@mulga.oz> Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 07:53:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mulga.2058 Posted: Tue Jun 23 07:53:35 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 00:35:58 EDT Reply-To: jas@mulga.UUCP (John Shepherd) Distribution: world Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 22 Thanks for your replies so far. Unfortnuately, I got the original question a little bit wrong. The correct description is: On a VAX 11/780 under VMS 4.5 a terminal logged onto the Vax selects the function to SET HOST/DTE/DIAL(etc) to dial out another port which has a modem attached. This is used to log onto another Vax. If the user does a CONTROL-\ to return to the local host, the session between the two modems remains, even when the user has logged off the local machine. The next user of the modem gets the session. We would rather have some mechanism for making the local modem hang up in ther=se situations. We have tried doing the following in the hope of disabling control signals and convincing the local modem to hang up: SET TERM/NOMODEM WAIT 00:00:02 SET TERM/MODEM How do we get the local modem to hang up? Training users to log off the remote system is not a reliable solution, and some of these modem connections are (unfortunately) overseas links.