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From: val@wsccs.UUCP (Val Kartchner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Resident AST's
Message-ID: <173@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 20:34:05 GMT
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     Anyone out there know how to get Resident AST's running in your
     process?  These AST's (Asynchronous System Traps) are like the CTRL-C/Y
     and the CTRL-T AST's.  I'd like to have other control characters invoke
     *user*written* code to perform things.
     
     The specific thing that I want
     to do is have an AST run a user routine every 10 (or so) minutes to do
     some I/O.  We have a watchdog program that logs users out after 20
     minutes.  A professor has a terminal in his office, and he sometimes
     leaves (in the middle of a large project) to help a student.  The
     watchdog logs him out after 30 minutes of inactivity, and he has to
     start over again.  Computing Services (Service? HA!) won't disable the
     watchdog on him, though they can disable it for specific users.
     ADMINISTRATION users, who thinks that the students are a bother, are
     immune.

     What I need is a resident AST that does I/O in the same process to keep
     the professor from being logged out.  Any help would be appreciated.
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