info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (03/05/85)
From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA> I have brought up VMS 4.0 on our 780 and the DIALOUT lines no longer work. We use Racal-Vadic VA212 autodial modems attached to DZ11's. The terminals settings on these DZs are: $Set term ttxy:/Perm/Speed=1200/Modem/Hangup/Hostsynch/Altypeahd The program that controls the dialer also sets PASSALL and NOECHO. The modem goes into its command mode when send a CONTROL-E RETURN (ASCII 5, ASCII 13). This it does fine. All subsequent commands to the modem fail. Modem says "Illegal Command". When the modem is plugged into a terminal (ie the LA120 console) directly, all works fine. Sample session: <-- ^E cr typed HELLO I'M READY *d <-- "d" (for "DIAL") typed ILLEGAL COMMAND * This situation is the same with 3 modem control programs: VAXDIAL, KERMIT and "SET HOST /DTE". The last being the new DEC program part of V4.0. I have tried varying most terminal settings, i.e. PARITY, EIGHTBIT, FALLBACK etc. to no avail. Any ideas (we need this to work real soon). Anyone running dialout lines on VMS V4.0? What ternminal settings? What program? I'm now going to try 2 more things: try VAXNET program, and try plugging into DMF32. Any ideas that it is something other than the terminal settings? Any straw will be willingly grasped at. Thanks Rg -------
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (03/05/85)
From: stew%lhasa.UUCP@harvard.ARPA To fix your problem, turn off /hostsync. Under V4, vms sends a ctrl-q before every read. I am looking into patching ttdriver so as not to do this; it is really stupid in my humble opinion. Bob Bruccoleri at Mass. General figured this one out after long and painful trouble. Stew rubenstein@harvard.arpa {ihnp4,seismo,ut-sally}!harvard!rubenstein