IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET (03/03/88)
I just looked at the March 1988 SIGs Newsletters and found something mighty interesting in the Pageswapper. On page VAX-15, in response to SIR F87-24, which asks for the ability to log terminal sessions a' la PHOTO, DEC's response is that "This capability is provided by the VAX-11 DEC/Test Manager layered product." Since we have DTM here, I have wasted the last hour trying to get it to just give me a session log that can be printed, without going through ten minutes of setup and burning up lots of disk. Does anybody know what clever thing DEC was thinking of when this reply was generated, or did DEC misunderstand the request? (The request as I understand it, which I have heard over and over and *over* again, is for *exact* logging of any old terminal session, character-for-character.) Anybody know how to do it with DTM? Alternately, has anybody figured out the PC: and PTY: devices that come with DTM? I tried a few naive tests and succeeded only in locking up two processes. Heard any good rumors about whether the *very useful* concept of a pseudo- terminal, which DEC h a s a l r e a d y i m p l e m e n t e d for DTM, might become a bundled, supported, documented part of a theoretical future release of VMS? (If they've already got the code then why not let us use it?) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mark H. Wood IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET (317)274-0749 III U U PPPP U U III Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis I U U P P U U I 799 West Michigan Street, ET 1023 I U U PPPP U U I Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA I U U P U U I [@disclaimer@] III UUU P UUU III