Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!icus!limbic!gil
From: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SET HOST Problem
Summary: Define SYS$INPUT before you do this.
Message-ID: <163@limbic.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 88 23:10:52 GMT
References: <5202@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, NY
Lines: 29

In article <5202@watcgl.waterloo.edu> mberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (Mike Berkley) writes:
|>	$ SET HOST/DTE $TERMINAL1
|>
|>works fine at the VMS level (i.e. my VT220 becomes a terminal
|>for the remote machine).  The problem is that it doesn't work
|>from within a command (DCL) file.  It exits with the message:
|>
|>	%REM-F-NOTERM, command device is not a terminal

Yeah, I had the same problem.

First off, if you are running this from a command file, recall that SYS$INPUT
is *NOT* your terminal, but rather the command file itself.  Therefore what
you want to do is:

	$ DEFINE/USER SYS$INPUT SYS$COMMAND

right before you execute the SET HOST/DTE command.  The error message you are
getting is not refering to the $TERMINAL1 necessarily, but the terminal
connected to SYS$INPUT (which is a file not a terminal)...

Hope this helps!

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