earl@cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith) (11/14/90)
I recently upgraded from RSTS V 8 to RSTS V 9.6. I have a modem on my system (a PDP 11/73) so I can dial up from home. I set the KB properly, I believe. But, the modem does not work the way it did before, and its current behavior is unacceptable. I cannot get on my system from home, unless I am willing to try about twenty times. I was told by someone that I needed to have more wires in the cable between the modem and the computer at work. I therefore switched to a completely connected cable, but with no better results. I believe I set everything up okay, because I can always connect, but I can login successfully only one in about forty tries, and this is starting to cause me some grief. What I see is that on my PC from home, when I dial in to work, I get login: R login: I login: N login: G or something to this effect (sometimes I also get CONNECT 1200 in the same one letter to the line patters, with each letter apparently being seen as a login attempt). Always, when this happens, the cursor ends up at the left end of the screen, with no login possible. When things go right, I get this stuff anyway, but the cursor ends up just to the right of the word login on one of the lines, and I am able to login. My suspicion is that it has something to do with the slowness of the computer at work, because several programs at work that run on a PC and automatically login to the RSTS system to download files, had to have waits inserted into them, so that the password was not sent until after the PDP-11 asked for it. If anyone has any help on this, I would greatly appreciate it. If anyone knows of a RSTS consultant in the New York area who might be able to help me with this, I would also appreciate hearing about them. As you might have guessed, I am so desperate now that I am willing to actually pay for a solution to this problem. Please feel free to call me at (212)854-8884 if you have any help on this problem, or else respond via the net or email to earl@cs.columbia.edu.
terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) (11/14/90)
In article <1990Nov13.165638.4481@cs.columbia.edu>, earl@cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith) writes: > I was told by someone that I needed to have more wires in the cable between > the modem and the computer at work. I therefore switched to a completely > connected cable, but with no better results. Possibly, but as one of your networking folks says, it's "connecting the _right_ colored wires together". > cause me some grief. What I see is that on my PC from home, when I dial > in to work, I get > login: R > login: I > login: N > login: G Sounds like you're using a "smart" modem without disabling responses. > If anyone knows of a RSTS consultant in the New York area who might be able > to help me with this, I would also appreciate hearing about them. As you > might have guessed, I am so desperate now that I am willing to actually > pay for a solution to this problem. I could come over (I'm in Jersey City) and look at it for you. If you're interested, send me mail (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu, or if you prefer a local address, kennedy@watsun). Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, US terry@spcvxa.spc.edu (201) 915-9381
stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) (11/15/90)
From article <1990Nov13.191823.761@spcvxb.spc.edu>, by terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr): > In article <1990Nov13.165638.4481@cs.columbia.edu>, earl@cs.columbia.edu (Earl Smith) writes: > >> If anyone knows of a RSTS consultant in the New York area who might be able >> to help me with this, I would also appreciate hearing about them. As you >> might have guessed, I am so desperate now that I am willing to actually >> pay for a solution to this problem. > > I could come over (I'm in Jersey City) and look at it for you. If you're > interested, send me mail (terry@spcvxa.spc.edu, or if you prefer a local > address, kennedy@watsun). > Well, I could come over (I'm in Brighton) and look at it for you - but I doubt that you'd pay the fares (lots of :-) Stephen Carter, Systems Manager, The Administration, The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK Tel: +44 273 678203 Fax: +44 273 678335 JANET: stevedc@uk.ac.sussex.syma EARN/BITNET : stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: stevedc@syma.uucp ARPA/INTERNET: stevedc%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk