EVERHART%ARISIA@rca.COM ("GLENN EVERHART, 609 486 6328") (07/23/87)
Mark Granoff asked for a way to force type-in onto a process.
There was a program FORCE on, I think, the fall '83 VAX SIG tape
which did this. I went through it and (by simply diking out the
bits that failed) got it working on VMS V4.X and have placed it
on one of the more recent tapes ('85 or '86, but I forget which
just now) in part of a tree called [..RCA*...].
It runs fine on my machine (VMS 4.5) and will force random
commands onto other terminals, either in DCL or in images. I use it
to force exits on word processors too.
I have only used it on DZ and DMF-like ports here, so it may
not be quite right for LAT ports, or remote processes via set /host.
However all the code is there, and not really very long.
Keep in mind: I did NOT originate the thing, just did a little
hack to get it running again on V4 since I got used to having such
things under RSX and later VMS V3. It's a tool that belongs in anyone's
toolbox. Needs cmkrnl, of course... you have to be REAL careful not to
install such a beastie unless you have an almost excessively open
and adult environment (AND trust it to be so a LOT). It can be used
to force other processes to type ANSI pictures or text that'll reset
their VT240 to puce on purple and then draw nudes on it, or other
weird and not-so-wonderful things... but for getting an image to
exit clean where you can't get to the terminal, there's nothing
like it...
at least not for free...
Glenn Everhjar
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Glenn Everhart
Everhart%Arisia.decnet@ge-crd.arpa