Description: Hacking DEC's (Knights of Shadow II)
  File Date: 6-21-87
  File Time: 6:31 am


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   Welcome to Basics of Hacking I: DEC's In this article you will learn how
to log in to DEC's, logging out, and all the fun stuff to do in-between.
All of this information is based on a standard DEC system.  Since there
are DEC systems 10 and 20, and we favor, the DEC 20, there will be more
info on them in this article.  It is also the more common of the two,
and is used by much more interesting people (if you know what we mean...)
Ok, the first thing you want to do when you are receiving carrier from
a DEC system is to find out the format of login names.  You can do this
by looking at who is on the system.

DEC=> @   (the 'exec' level prompt)
YOU=> SY

SY is short for SY(STAT) and shows you the system status.  You should see
|he format of login names... A SYSTAT usually comes up in this form:

Job  Line  Program  User

Job:     The JOB number (Not important unless you want to log them off later)
Line:    What line they are on (used to talk to them...)
         These are both two or three digit numbers.
Program: What program are they running under?  If it says 'EXEC' they aren't
         doing anything at all...
User:    ahhhAHHHH!  This is the user name they are logged in under...

Copy the format, and hack yourself out a working code...
Login format is as such:

DEC=> @
YOU=> login username password

Username is the username in the format you saw above in the SYSTAT.  After you
hit the space after your username, it will stop echoing characters back to
your screen.  This is the password you are typing in...  Remember, people
usually use their name, their dog's name, the name of a favorite character
in a book, or something like this.  A few clever people have it set to a key
cluster (qwerty or asdfg).  PW's can be from 1 to 8 characters long, anything
after that is ignored.
   It would be nice to have a little help, wouldn't it?  Just type a ?
or the word HELP, and it will give you a whole list of topics...
Some handy characters for you to know would be the control keys, wouldn't it?
Backspace on a DEC 20 is rub which is 255 on your ASCII chart.  On the DEC 10
it is Ctrl-H.  To abort a long listing or a program, Ctrl-C works fine.  Use
Ctrl-O to stop long output to the terminal.  This is handy when playing
a game, but you don't want to Ctrl-C out.  Ctrl-T for the time.  Ctrl-U
will kill the whole line you are typing at the moment.  You may accidently
run a program where the only way out is a Ctrl-X, so keep that in reserve.
Ctrl-S to stop listing, Ctrl-Q to continue on both systems.  Is your
terminal having trouble??  Like, it pauses for no reason, or it doesn't
backspace right?  This is because both systems support many terminals,
and you haven't told it what yours is yet...  You are using a VT05 (Isn't
that funny?  I thought i had an apple) so you need to tell it you are one.

DEC=> @
YOU=> information terminal
      or...
YOU=> info ter

This shows you what your terminal is set up as...

DEC=>  all sorts of shit, then the @
YOU=>  set ter vt05

This sets your terminal type to VT05. Now let's see what is in the account
(here after abbreviated acct.) that you have hacked onto...

SAY => DIR

short for directory, it shows you what the user of the code has save to the
disk.  There should be a format like this:  xxxxx.ooo      xxxxx is the file
name, from 1 to 20 characters long.  ooo is the file type, one of:
exe, txt, dat, bas, cmd   and a few others that are system dependant.
Exe is a compiled program that can be run (just by typing its name at the @).
Txt is a text file, which you can see by typing=> type xxxxx.txt
Do not try to=> type xxxxx.exe This is very bad for your terminal and
will tell you absolutly nothing. Dat is data they have saved.
Bas is a basic program, you can have it typed out for you.
Cmd is a command type file, a little too complicated to go into here.

TRY => take xxxxx.cmd

By the way, there are other usersout there who may have files you can
use (Gee, why else am i here?).

TYPE => DIR <*.*>   (DEC 20)
     => DIR [*,*]   (DEC 10)
* is a wildcard, and will allow you

to access the files on other accounts if the user has it set for public
access.  If it isn't set for public access, then you won't see it.
to run that program:

DEC=> @
YOU=> username program-name

Username is the directory you saw the file listed under, and file name was
what else but the file name?

**  YOU ARE NOT ALONE  **
Remember, you said (at the very start) SY  short for SYSTAT, and how we said
this showed the other users on the system?  Well, you can talk to them,
or at least send a message to anyone you see listed in a SYSTAT.  You can
do this by:

DEC=> the user list (from your systat)
YOU=> talk username     (DEC 20)
      send username     (DEC 10)

Talk allows you and them immediate conferencing.

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