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From: IJAH400@INDYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: How do you persuade VMS that a serial line isn't a terminal?
Message-ID: <8803011810.AA28340@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 88 05:48:00 GMT
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In a previous message, Anthony A. Datri writes:

< We've got a line off of a dmf-32 (one of the normal ones) connected to our
< Equinox port switch box for the purpose of getting to things like dialout
< modems.  However, I'm getting lots and lots of LOGFAILS in the accounting
< file because VMS thinks that the occasional noise or Equinox prompt that
< comes over the line is a user trying to log in.  On a Unix machine I'd
< just turn off the getty to the line, but I can't figure out what to do
< for VMS.  Any ideas?

SET TERMINAL/PERMANENT/NOTYPE_AHEAD ttcu:

is what DEC Software Services told me too do.  We do it at system startup
for all lines that are dedicated for such uses.  See HELP SET TERMINAL
/TYPE_AHEAD...

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