In article <[log in to unmask]>, Jamie Howard <[log in to unmask]> writes: > So why do they call it a TTY? Does that stand for something? And why > does VMS call it an NTY? I'll let someone else answer the TTY question. As to NTY, I think it stands for network TTY. That's just a guess, though. All of the devices on VMS have a 3 letter designation for the type of device. SCSI disks are DKAxxx (or DKBxxx, DKCxxx, etc. depending on the SCSI bus). Remote terminals are RTA devices (do a SET HOST sometime and look at your device). Terminal server connections use LTA devices. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]