Article 171824 of comp.os.vms:

In article <199706120549.HAA11569@gate.fim.fgan.de>, <win@gate.fim.fgan.de> writes:

:I know there is a possibility to redirect the input and output of a debugger
:to a seperate DECterminal. But I forgot all the qualifiers to create a
:right one DECterminal and how to get the name of this one. I hope that there
:is anybody who can help me.

  I'm not sure what you are asking -- you're mixing several terms,
  and I'm not certain if you are using the DECwindows interface or
  (more likely, based on phrasing) the character cell interface in
  a DECterm.)

  Logical names used by the debugger include dbg$input and dbg$output,
  and dbg$decw$display -- the latter is often set to "  " when one
  wishes to use the character cell interface in preference to the
  DECwindows display -- while the former two logical names are used
  to redirect the character cell interface to another terminal.

  To create a new DECterm terminal, use CREATE/TERMINAL...  I'd
  look at using /DETACH and /NOLOGGED_IN if I wanted the debugger
  to grab control of the newly-created terminal, and the /DEFINE
  command to acquire the name of the newly-created terminal.
  (If sufficiently bored, and with sufficient privileges, one might
  even use /DEFINE to define the DBG$ logicals.  :-)

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   Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   h*ffman@xdelta.enet.dec.c*m
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