DECserver 200 Users Guide Jul86

This document is the DECserver 200 User's Guide, published in July 1986 for DECserver 200 V1.0.

It is specifically designed for nonprivileged users of the DECserver 200 terminal server, which connects devices like terminals, printers, modems, and computers to a local area network. The guide details how users can interact with the server and establish connections to various network services.

Key topics covered include:

• Introduction to Server Concepts: Explains terms like local mode, service mode, service nodes, and sessions.
• Getting Started: How to log in and out, access online help, establish and end sessions, and the function of automatic failover.
• Multiple Sessions: Creating and managing several concurrent sessions, including switching between them and disconnecting them.
• Connecting to Services: Commands for connecting to specific network services, nodes, and ports.
• Displaying Information: Using SHOW and LIST commands to view operational and permanent information about the server, network nodes, ports, services, sessions, users, and queue entries.
• Utility Commands: Instructions for testing the port (TEST), locking the terminal (LOCK), and broadcasting messages to other users (BROADCAST).
• File Transfer: Guidelines and procedures for transferring files, including setting session characteristics for different file types.
• Specifying Port Characteristics: How to customize both temporary (operational) and permanent port settings using SET and DEFINE commands. This includes configuring switch characters, BREAK key behavior, preferred services, autoconnect features, terminal type, user identification, data transmission parameters (character size, parity, speed, flow control), and message reception preferences.

The guide also provides a command summary with syntax and page references for quick lookup. It explicitly states that it covers only non-privileged commands, directing privileged users to other specific management guides.