[comp.os.vms] Request for VMS equivalent of RSTS FORCE System Service

mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) (07/22/87)

Greetings Netlanders:

Simply, is there a way on VMS to force output (which would 'emulate'
the user typing) to a terminal and have the running image accept it as
user input?

I am writing a 'new and improved' time-out-style program that, among
other things, stops idle processes.  The catch is that our word
processing users would rather not have to recover their documents if
they are timed out (i.e. they would rather have the document saved for
them).  In other words, I need to send a 'save file and exit' command
to the word processor (MASS-11) and have it look like the user typed
it.

We are running VMS 4.5 on numerous machines ranging from uVAXen to
8700's.

Any help/suggestions/comments/code-fragments/etc will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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