[comp.sys.dec] Help: Setting up an out-going modem

bourkej@ul.ie (John Bourke) (07/17/90)

Hi,

I would like to connect a Modem to a terminal server, and have a setup where
a user on a VAX can type a command, or do a SET HOST, and it will get the 
Modem to dial a local bulletin board.  Can I just put the Modem on an
application port and do SET HOST LTA????: ?

I've been messing with this for some time and can't suss it out.

Thanks.

john

dent@unocss.unomaha.edu (dent) (07/23/90)

From article <5851@ul.ie>, by bourkej@ul.ie (John Bourke):
> I would like to connect a Modem to a terminal server, and have a setup where
> a user on a VAX can type a command, or do a SET HOST, and it will get the 
> Modem to dial a local bulletin board.  Can I just put the Modem on an
> application port and do SET HOST LTA????: ?

I do believe that there was a [series of] posts[s] on comp.os.vms quite a
while back on just this topic.  The solution had to do with connecting the
modem to, say a DMF32 port that has modem-control on it (not 2 through 7),
so the modem is on a TXAxxxx terminal (in the same way in which you might
hook up a direct-connect LA100).  The posting also had VMS-specific program(s?)
to utilize the new service.

Unfortunately, I don't have these posts, but I imagine that they might be
either on a DECUS tape somewhere, or in the INFO-VAX archives...

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