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- From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Subject: Re: How to prevent the DEC login screen on VMS workstation?
- Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:37:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.003717.7803@crpmks.uucp>
- References: <Monica_Lee-211292080618@129.193.144.123> <2347@sousa.tay.dec.com> <1992Dec30.114610.4960@tc.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.114610.4960@tc.cornell.edu> olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu writes:
- >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).
- >
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- When you have the login prompt (username/password) on the screen, you are
- executing a program on a Vax in your network. The DEFine has to be done on
- that Vax.
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