[Info-vax] EMU-vm follow-up

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:35:26 +0000, Vertis Sidus wrote:

> 
> Somehow, while I was writing my last post, I managed to forget that the
> main reason I don't have a LOGIN.COM yet is that I'm trying to learn how
> to set up a cluster; I haven't made a user account for myself yet in any
> of the VMS VMs I have right now, and I'm wary of adding something like
> that to the SYSTEM account.

Are you sure there isn't a LOGIN.COM already in SYS$MANAGER ?

Here's what I have on my system (initially installed with V7.n, later
upgraded to V8.3):

$ dir /size=all /date login

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR]

LOGIN.COM;1                2/18       18-NOV-1991 14:55:29.96
LOGIN.TEMPLATE;1           4/18       11-APR-2003 18:46:30.52
 
> And, I mean, really, I've got arrow keys and ctrl-Z working, which isn't
> enough to really _use_ (Eve? TPU? Whatever the default editor is), but
> it's enough to fake it. Mainly I've just been afflicted by the strange
> sort of laziness where I'd rather type the SET TERM thing on every login
> than type maybe twice as much, once, and not have to deal with it
> anymore.

This is where VIM comes in handy.  You don't need any function keys to 
run it.  And yes, for a while I suffered from that same strange laziness, 
but now I have this in my LOGIN.COM:

$ set term/vt100

 
> Actually, though, I have to say I'm curious why it switches to 132
> column mode when I log in. Is there any way to stop it doing that?

There is also SYS$MANAGER:SYLOGIN.COM.  My system started out life on a 
real Alpha PWS 600au so I was using the CDE interface rather than the 
console.  I was surprised that at the first console login it cleared the 
screen. This line is the culprit:

$    SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE /PAGE='tt_page'/WIDTH='devbufsiz'

Setting the width has the side effect of clearing the screen.  I changed 
the line to:

$    SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE !/PAGE='tt_page'/WIDTH='devbufsiz'

I might just comment the whole line out for current purposes.

One the editor front, EDIT/EDT in command line mode might be an old 
fashioned method, but it works.  I'll dig out the initialisation file I 
have for EDIT/TPU later (food is calling).

-- 
Paul Sture