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From: ananth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ananth Annapragada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to make the DM display a node name
Summary: leaving a window on a node after logout
Message-ID: <48f9e46a.1014c@gulari.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 17:29:00 GMT
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n article <6923@ubc-cs.UUCP> pphillip@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Phillips) writes:
>The node node is just one example of information I might want to display.
>Suppose some software package is available on a select few nodes.  It
>would be nice to put up a message like "this node has lisp++" or
>"you can't run lisp++ here" and be able to do it remotely rather than
>trucking over to the lab with scotch tape & paper in hand.

If what you want to do is leave a window of some kind displaying all the 
relevant node parameters, that would be kind of inconvenient to do in the 
login line. What you might do rather is run a server (via crp or suchlike)
which crpad's a parameter file to the screen upon logout, and wakes up 
ever so often to check if the pad is up or not...


Make sense?