[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

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In article <h8ajpl$m1$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
>Hi Brian
>
><VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message
>news:00A9150F.94EAF1C2 at SendSpamHere.ORG...
>> In article <h89am9$2fa$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher"
><maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
>> >Hi Brian,
>> >
>> ><VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message
>> >news:00A914CA.3F5BAA92 at SendSpamHere.ORG...
>> >> WTF?
>> >>
>> >> [Read only - use Ctrl-Ecf for console write access.]
>> >>
>> >> Ctrl-E and [c] and [f]?
>> >
>> >Thanks for bringing that up; I also had no idea what it was talking
>about.
>> >
>> >FWIW, I only see this happen when I reboot my PC/Term-emulator when the
>> >console was previously logged on (into SYSTEM as it happens). If I Ctrl-B
>> >back to the menu, then log in to the server via a normal Telnet session,
>and
>> >then CO again from the console session, it goes away.
>> >
>> >I'm sure I've also tried the Ctrl-E+c+f combo with no success (I had
>thought
>> >"Ecf" was some character(s) that KIA term was munging :-)
>>
>> I am telnetting.
>
>Yes, but you have one IP address for the console and another for "normal"
>(this is my real server IP address) telnet no?
>
>As someone else suggested, I was trying to log in (via the non-console IP
>address) so as to stop/id my SYSTEM process when I discovered that merely
>logging in as SYSTEM turned the message off. Simply an observation and no
>inkling as to the science behind it all.

There's no other non-console IP address in this case.  It's difficult to
log into VMS if VMS has, as yet, not been installed.  That's the purpose
for the console login.  

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