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Conference noted::hackers_v1

Title:-={ H A C K E R S }=-
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Moderator:DIEHRD::MORRIS
Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 03 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:680
Total number of notes:5456

406.0. "SET host/dte input from a file?" by AMIGO::MULLEN (Dan Mullen) Wed Feb 11 1987 13:08

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406.1MOTHRA::DUTKONestor Dutko, VMS/VAXclusters CSSEWed Feb 11 1987 14:2822
    Hmmm...  I think I may know what is wrong.  Note the change in device
    name?  Well, if you have the device before LTA999, the process has
    reserved in the PCB seven bytes for the device name.  Therefore,
    the device will appear as LTA999:.  Note that once you get to the
    devices in the thousands, there is a *problem*.  Now you still have
    the seven bytes reserved for the terminal (PCB$T_TERMINAL), but
    the colon is omitted.  
    
    If your application is trying to do anything peculiar where it assumes
    the device, and there is no colon, that is where the problem would
    occur.
    
    Sorry, about this not addressing the problem with getting up to
    unit 1000, but perhaps you may get some information from the above
    description and not have to do the reproduction of problem.  
    
    BTW, I believe that you could have used LATCP and created an additional
    port LTA1000, and logged into it as an appklication and gone from
    there, instead of trying to get VMS and LTDRIVER to incrementally
    increase the unit numbers that high...
    
    -- Nestor