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Subject: Re: node information for display
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In article <9203182204.AA02687@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
# I want to determine the actual node one is sitting on from a command routine.
# What I need is the information which the VAX-System delivers when called
# interactively with the $SHOW DISPLAY command
# Ex.: $SHOW DISPLAY
#
#    Device:    WSA5:  [super]
#    Node:      _VSBM
#    Transport: DECNET
#    Server:    0
#    Screen:    0
# This was done on a remote decterm on a node called vsbc, with display on node
# vsbm.
# What I need is something like a lexical that gives me the node-information.
#

Well, I don't have a lexical to do this, but what I do have is much better,
it is UNDOCUMENTED ;-).

Issue the command $ SHOW DISPLAY/SYMBOL, then look for the following symbols

	DECW$DISPLAY_NODE
	DECW$DISPLAY_SCREEN
	DECW$DISPLAY_SERVER
	DECW$DISPLAY_TRANSPORT

Use them to your hearts content.

--
Patrick L. Mahan

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