| Title: | Zap Technical Conference |
| Notice: | ZAP Version 5.3 is available. See note 1.1 |
| Moderator: | ZAPDEV::MACONI |
| Created: | Mon Feb 24 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 170 |
| Total number of notes: | 492 |
Hello, We have a Cutomer who wants to know if the following is possible. Any input would be appreciate. -Erik. --------------------------------------------------- They log into a VAX as usual and run an application. This application maintains a file of users using it. In order to get this application to update the file (and so let the user back in) ZAP must send a message to the users terminal that makes the application believe that the user has typed "<ctrl>C Y<return>" before it ZAPs the users login process. Is this possible?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 130.1 | ZAPDEV::MACONI | The Doctor is In | Mon May 17 1993 12:09 | 21 | |
The ability to place commands into the users input buffer is not included in ZAP. However, ZAP does include a user written termination procedure interface, which means that if the user had a program that could reset this information it could be run when the process is terminated. That is: ZAP can either issue a $FORCEX to the process (which should cause a properly written application to exit normally) or ZAP can issue a $DELPRC to the process or ZAP can create a detached job to run a command procedure written by the customer. This procedure could stop the process and then reset the pointers, or it could place data into the users input buffer (they must supply the program to do these functions). Keith | |||||
| 130.2 | CLARID::GACHOT | Mon May 17 1993 12:30 | 7 | ||
Thanks Keith for your quick answer and suggestions. -Erik. | |||||