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In article <42405@cup.portal.com> Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) writes:
>
>I would like to attach a modem to our DECserver 200/mc, for the 
>purposes of dialing out, and have some questions regarding this...
>
>The physcial connections I can handle ok, but my concern is how to
>use VMS to tell them modem to dial out? Dialing in is no problem,
>but things seem to work a little differently the other way 
>around.
>
>For example, when I connect to VMS thru our LAT, I can do a 
>$ show users/full bill 
>and itll show me, for example, that my device is LAT32, but each
>time I log into the LAT, the device changes... 
>
>I am wondering if there is a way to specify which port, such as
>LAT3 for port three? But then that doesnt fit with the above. LAT32 is
>physcially connected to port 1.

The setup is a little convoluted, but it can be done.  Basically, you set up
your modems just like printers.  This is done from LTLOAD.COM 
(LAT$SYSTARTUP.COM if you are running LATmaster).  For example, I have the
following lines in my LAT$SYSSTARTUP.COM file -
$ lcp := $latcp
$ lcp           !start image and feed it commands
...
! Enable LAT server mode and user groups.
SET NODE ALPHA /identification="DALLAS uVAX 3600"/connections=both/service
...
CREATE PORT/APPLICATION/LOGICAL=(TABLE=SYSTEM,MODE=EXEC,NAME=DIAL)/nolog
!this is a modem
CREATE PORT/APPLICATION/LOGICAL=(TABLE=SYSTEM,MODE=EXEC,NAME=SWBELL_1)/nolog
!this is a modem
CREATE PORT/APPLICATION/LOGICAL=(TABLE=SYSTEM,MODE=EXEC,NAME=SWBELL_2)/nolog
!this is a modem
SET PORT        DIAL            /APPL /node=HNT500 /SERVICE=DL.MOD24 -
                                /noqueue /NOLOG
SET PORT        SWBELL_1        /APPL /node=HNT500 /SERVICE=DL.MOD24 -
                                /noqueue /NOLOG
SET PORT        SWBELL_2        /APPL /node=HNT500 /SERVICE=DL.MOD24 -
                                /noqueue /NOLOG

Before we had LAT master I defined logical names for these ports as follows:
define/sys/exec DIAL LTA9200:
define/sys/exec SWBELL_1 lta9201:
define/sys/exec swbell_2 lta9202:
and used similar commands in LTLOAD.com

These ports can be used with SET HOST/DTE, KERMIT, DECUS UUCP, Alisa's EASYLINK
CONNECTION and probably a bunch more.

I also use SET HOST/LAT fairly often, but that doesn't help when you are trying
to set up UUCP.
>
>And how to tell VMS which device. What I would like to do login from my
>terminal, and do a set host command thru VMS to connect to port 3.
>
If you have a service set up on the terminal server, you can do:
SET HOST/LAT/NODE=<node name>/DEST=<port number> <service name>
>Thanx for any info
>
>Billy D'Augustine
>Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com

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