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The Question is: I know the AIX xdt command on an IBM RISC 6000 will launch an icon-based file manager at the command prompt. I know the VAX Alpha icon-based File Manager Application in the New Desktop can launch a DEC TERM window displaying a DCL command prompt, but ... "What is the DCL command to launch the icon-based File Manager window from a DEC TERM window's DCL command prompt?--I don't want to be slaved to only being able to launch the icon-based File Manager Application from the Front Panel with the mouse!" I ultimately desire to launch the icon-based File Manager window from a DEC TERM window in which I have set host to a different VAX Alpha cluster in another US city where I have login accounts--then I want to drag/drop icon-based file copies from the remo te node to my local node...sweet! I could not use the icon-based File Manager window to access a remote node's directories--I guess that's not possible, huh? The Answer is : The DECwindows launch procedures and images involved generally follow the naming format VUE$*.*, and in the specific case of FileView the name of the image involved is SYS$SYSTEM:VUE$MASTER.EXE. Remote multi-host access and intersystem drag-and-drop is generally not available -- the usual approach is the use of the integrated DECnet and IP access available within the OpenVMS command interface, and copy the files directly. (When copying files among systems, the specification of a password or the configuration of a proxy is generally required.) Other potential options include serving the files via NFS or similar, or configuring the various systems into a cluster (assuming sufficiently low latency and sufficiently high bandwidth on the existing link).
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