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- From: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
- Subject: Re: How to prevent the DEC login screen on VMS workstation?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.114610.4960@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, NY
- References: <Monica_Lee-211292080618@129.193.144.123>,<2347@sousa.tay.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:46:10 GMT
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- In article <2347@sousa.tay.dec.com>, anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com (Paul Anderson) writes:
- >You can eliminate the big "digital" logo by defining the logical name
- >DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND to be the name of a command procedure that will display
- >an image on the background behind the login box.
- >
- >For example, DEFINE /SYSTEM DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND "SYS$MANAGER:BACKGROUND.COM"
- >
- >BACKGROUND.COM could contain an XV command, for example. If it does nothing
- >useful, I would imagine you would get a plain background but the big logo would
- >still be gone.
-
- Pray tell me how to define DECW$DISPLAY when you're at an X-terminal and
- not a workstation. I had heard that the translation of SYS$ERROR held
- the display device, but this seems not to be the case (VMS 5.5-1).
-
- Steve
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