Re: help needed with REPLY/ENABLE on a mailbox

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From: jeh
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:23

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In article <1992Oct12.181732.1091@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>,
 doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal) writes:
> Can a mailbox device be enabled as an operator terminal?  

no.

> can anybody suggest an alternate approach?  

Sure... use the pseudoterminal driver.  Create a psuedoterminal, enable it
as an operator terminal, and read the messages via the PTD$ routines.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, VMS Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh

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From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
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Subject: Re: help needed with REPLY/ENABLE on a mailbox
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Date: 13 Oct 92 19:23:11 GMT
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