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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: re: Session Logs / Photo
Message-ID: <51rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 7 Jan 88 15:22:25 GMT
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I have used the Photo program quite a bit.  Even the most recent copies
(I think they are most recent, the one with two separate drivers and device
types rather than odd and even pty's) can crash the system.  And device
drivers are supposed to change in a major way in 5.0.  Why not go with the
DEC device just made for the task:  the RTAx device you see when you do
a "$ SET HOST".  This device seems to be able to do just about anything
that a PHOTO session might require, (except for virtual terminals, but your
primary session should have one of those) and on any DECNET node connected
to your system.  It is created via an RMS open on node::"objnum=" (I think
the number was somewhere between 23 and 27) and the protocol can be derived
by disassembling/debugging RTPAD.EXE on any VMS system, and it will probably
survive 5.0, etc.  I just can't tolerate device drivers which crash, but would
love a Photo program I could use.

                                Ray Whitmer
                                AMMON::RAY