Martin D. Lucas Allied Electronics, Inc. 7410 Pebble Drive Fort Worth, TX 76118 (817) 595-3500 UUCP: lucas@fallout.UUCP Included in my submission are three directories. The following is a brief description of the directories and their contents. As with any public domain software, please examine it thoroughly before use. All of the routines included here are pretty straight forward. I do not claim any responsibiliy for their use or misuse. I always recompile, if possible, ANY public domain software. Use at your own risk. Object code has been supplied. Although the executables supplied may run, the applications should be linked using the option files provided. BASIC.DIR Contains a small program called INQUIRE_PRINTER_STATUS. The program obtains information from a VT series terminal about an attached printer. DECFORMS.DIR Contains an example program that utilizes broadcast trapping, and dual 'sessions' to a particular FORM file. A mailbox is used in conjunction with an AST that sends the broadcast message to the form. Broadcast messages are displayed in the message area of the application. NOTE: You must at least have runtime for DECFORMS installed in order to run this application. I hope this is of use to someone. It certainly took lots of trial and error to get this working. (Coming from someone that has been trying to learn DECFORMS.) DECWINDOWS.DIR Contains two programs that are similar in nature: DEBUG_DISPLAY.COM Have you ever wanted to have a separate terminal window to use with DEBUG...instead of using the DECWINDOWS interface to DEBUG? This routine will create a DECTERM window and allocate the terminal device for use with debug. The terminal assigned to your interacive login will be used for your application. This is extremely useful when developing DECFORMS, SMG, or other applications that actively use a terminal. This program also uses a unique customization file for the window...so that screen coordinates and other settings can be saved and used for this window. DECTERM.BAS This program creates an interactive DECTERM window. A very similar program to others I've seen. This one employs the use of a customization file unique to the node that the process is to be created on. CREATE_REMOTE.COM This command procedure is an example that can be used in a clustered environment to create a DECTERM. I submit it on three other nodes to get interactive logins on my terminal. When added to the autostart on the SESSION MANAGER, this can be a quick and easy way to establish DECTERM windows on remote nodes.