OK, Thanks. Now, this does leave the problem of using the commands,
which someone pointed out to me off list. Fortunately, we maintain an
association table. We would have to add the modems to this and run
ASOCTBL at system start, then in the shutdown job, ASSOCIATE them,
:refuse them, then I think we would want to DISASSOCIATE them, or is
that redundant in a job? I think it is. Then reverse the procedure on
start up. Not bad.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 4:37 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] Quiescing before backups
>
> Or :refuse, which is a little more benign than :down, plus has the
> benefit that if you have a pager program it can dial-out to notify
> you of problems during the backup.
>
> :refuse doesn't prevent programmatic use of the port; :down does.
>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>