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Conference azur::mcc

Title:	DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:	Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:	TAEC::BEROUD

Created:	Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	6497
Total number of notes:	27359

102.0. "A Question on Setting the Variant of an entity" by POLE::LEMMON () Fri Apr 13 1990 10:45

    An entity can be defined to more than one variants.   A bridge, for
    example, can be a LAN Bridge 100, LAN Bridge 15o, LAN Bridge 2OO, etc.
    Some attributes apply to all variants, some only to specific variants.
    
    
    To change the variant of the entities which I know of require the
    network manager to either set the attribute and issue a RESET directive, or 
    deregister/register the entity specifying the new variant as an input 
    argument to the register or create directive.
    
    Does anyone know of an existing entity (or one of it's children) that can change
    it's variant by only changing specific attribute(s) at the time the attribute
    is changed?    That is, the user would type in SET <entity> <attribute> = <value>, 
    and the entity suddenly changes to the new variant.   
    
    Thanks
    /Jim

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
102.1	How about physical switches	CHRISB::BRIENEN	Christopher J. Brienen	`Wed Apr 18 1990 12:03`	2
	Another way of changing a Bridge into a Listener is to set a dip-switch on the back of the box, and then cycling the power...
102.2	How about a terminal?	TOOK::ORENSTEIN		`Mon May 14 1990 11:15`	2
	Would a terminal be an example? If you set the terminal TYPE to VT100 you will see fewer attributes than if you set the type to VT300.