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[neves at mit-vax]

I tried to use the Vax as a filecomputer from the lispmachine and
ran into a few problems.  Some might be on the vax end, others at
the lispm end.

1.  When I tried to ^x^f a file on the Vax while logged into
MC the Lispm asked me to log will name and password or just
password.  Because my ITS name is the same as my Unix name I
just typed in my password (carriage return) but the Lispm just
prompted me for my name/password again.  Typing both worked.

2.  When I finally got logged in I tried finding my login file
to test things out.  I ^x^fed /usr/neves/.login .  The lispm
for some reason wanted to put some file name in front of the
".login" and produced buffer.login I believe.  Periods can be
part of Unix file names and don't have the special significance
that they do in Tops-20 (i.e. seperating name and extention).

3.  I assumed that when I logged in I could access my files by
just typing in their name (i.e. foo) and not the whole pathname
/usr/name/foo.  This was not always the case.  If had a Vax
file in the buffer then the new file I wanted to find would
have the right default (i.e. if I was editting /usr/neves/bar and
wanted to read in foo I would just ^x^f vx:foo.  However if I
had an ITS file in my buffer and tried to read vx:foo I would
get part of the ITS file name in the file I wanted read (i.e.
/neves/foo where neves was the directory of the ITS file I was
looking at.  (Perhaps this problem had something to do with 
the ".login" case above?  I remember trying to read in the .login
file when I was in ITS buffer mode.)