Trudeau, James L wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> As we slowly get our serial printers off the DTC's and onto the network we
> are removing the DTC's.  We
> will eventually wind up with one left which we can't get rid of as it has
> the TAC card supporting the few
> telnet sessions we have (no OS upgrades, we're going to a 9k).  With
> everything gone from the DTC
> I don't see any reason to keep OpenView DTC Manager around as about all we
> would need to do
> to the DTC is reset it which can be done by power off/power on.

Others have addressed MPE host based options and difficulties.

I may be missing something here, but HP-UX can use DTC printers and terminals
just fine.  You can use the OV DTC PC (or you could purchase - ?upgrade? - to
HP-UX based DTC manager, but why would you want to).

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