Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

850.0. "HELP with CHILD and VWSLAT" by 58432::COUILLARD () Tue May 30 1989 12:11

I am new to DECwindows and VWSLAT and I am having difficulties reproducing
    the events noted in the notes file.  I wish to have a LAT window
    on a VAXstation 2000.

I copied files over the network and attempted to follow some instruction from 
the DECwindows notes files, but I have failed to initiate LAT communication.

I copied the CHILD programs which are spawning routines for DECwindows and also 
copied the VWSLAT programs for LAT.  The LAT programs were only available in FT 
versions, ie VWSLAT_FT4B.EXE, so I simply renamed it to VWSLAT.EXE.  

I am running version 5.1-B (major ver = 1, minor ver = 0) of VMS.

If I issue a CHILD command, without any parameters, a second DECterm window is 
created and appears to function fully.

If I issues either of the two following commands (notes examples) I get errors.

example 1: $CHILD -
		/DEVICE=TTA2: -
		/SHRINK -
		/DECTERM -
		/LINEEDITING -
		/INSERT -
		/TITLE="DECWINDOWS LAT" -
		/ITITLE="VWSLAT" -
		/PROCESS="VWSLAT" -
		/X=3 -
		/Y=756 -
		/NOBROADCAST -
		/PAGE=5 -
		/WIDTH=40 -
		"RUN SYS$SYSTEM:VWSLAT"

No error reported, system message:

	$@command_procedure
	 Identification of created process is %x53
	$
Nothing happens, no other windows is created, no LAT accessible from TTA2:, just 
another $ prompt?

example 2: $CHILD
		/IMAGE=SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT.EXE -
		/DEVICE=TTA2: -
		/PRIORITY=3 -
		/NOFOCUS -
		/PRIV -
		/INPUT=SYS$SYSDEVICE:[COUILLARD]VWSLAT.COM -
		/DETACH -
		/PAUSE=5 -
		/SHRINK -
		/PAGE=24 -
		/PROCESS=VWSLAT -
		/ITITLE="MY LAT" -
		/TITLE="VWSLAT CONTROL TERMINAL" -
		/DECTERM -
		/LINE -
		/INSERT -
		/NOPASSWORD

	SYS$SYSDEVICE:[COUILLARD]VWSLAT.COM

		$DEFINE/USER SYS$INPUT SYS$OUTPUT
		$RUN SYS$SYSTEM:VWSLAT.EXE
		$LOGOUT

Errors reported, if account COUILLARD is without privileges

system message:

	$@command_procedure
	 Identification of created process is %x53
	 Process 0x53 terminated with status 0x1829a:
	 %RMS-E-PRV, insuficient privilege or file protection violation
	 %SYSTEM-E-NOPRIV, no privileges for attempted operation
	$


Errors reported, if account COUILLARD has priv=all
system message:

	$@command_procedure
	 Identification of created process is %x53
	 Process 0x53 terminated with status 0x1829a:
	 %RMS-E-PRV, insuficient privilege or file protection violation
	$


Can you help?

    Have you looked at the VWSLAT notes file.  I believe you'll find
    your answer there.
    
    	VSG::VWSLAT is the filename for the notesfile.
    
    Regards.
    
    -Piyush

    Remove the '/DEVICE' qualifier - it's not needed (and is wrong)

	HTH,
	Paul.

The filename you give doesn't sound like one that does DECWindows.

See VSG::VWSLAT topic number 114 for information about the DECWindows
version of VWSLAT, and figure out how to run it by hand first from a
regular terminal emulator first, before you get confused by the
additional complexity of starting it automatically with CHILD.