info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/13/85)
From: Bakin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA I would like to initiate a remote session over decnet (vax to vax) with the set host xxx command, and then disconnect or deattach leaving the session going and ready to be reconnected to. (By "going" I mean hanging around, not actually executing.) I can't find out how to set the remote terminal stuff so that disconnect works and I can't deattach since ^Y out of the set host always terminates the connection. Can someone help? OK: My main goal is to leave the remote session logged in with all my environment, etc., and so I don't have to be running my enormous login.com each time I log in remotely. The way we have our vaxen configured the remote system is dedicated to batch jobs and I log in many many times a day (even many many times an hour) to the remote machine. Thank you in advance -- Dave Bakin (Bakin -at mit-multics)
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/13/85)
From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA> disconnection from DECnet logins: The normal VAX - VAX DECnet does not provide for this since 1) RTA's aren't disconnectable and 2) The local DECnet server RTPAD will not disconnect without dropping the conection. I have accomplished this by means of subprocesses running under control of some agent (i.e. emacs) and running on a PTY. The senario is: Start Emacs; emacs starts a subproc in a window using a PTY; subprocess does remote login; emacs filters all io and has an escape built in; escape back to emacs; exit to DCL leaving subproc there. Later reenter emacs, and the remote session. This is all a big kludge but it works. You could write a simple version (all you really need is the PTY (look on next decus tape)). DEC should look at how the DEC-20 works and see how they should do things like this. Rg -------
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/15/85)
From: decwrl!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!aphasia!gww@BERKELEY (George Williams)
Where can I get documentation on an emacs that has the capability to run
commands in PTYs? Thanks in advance...
George Williams
{decvax!frog, cit-vax}!aphasia!gwwinfo-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/16/85)
From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA> We use Goseling emacs, pre-Unipress version with PTY's from CMU put in by someone at UPenn. None of these versions, people, places, etc. are publically available as far as I know. As for ducomentation, you gotta be kidding ... Rg -------