For the last decade or so there has been people on IRCnet channels
#vax and #vms,
some hecnet-people too (including me).
There is also a port of EPIC4 irc-client for VMS, used that for a
while but it's not always stable.
Regards,
--Saku
Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 17 Aug 2008, at 19:29, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
Can't we please do this on a recognized, stable network - Freenode
(irc.freenode.net) strikes me as being a very nice network for this kind
of thing, and it already has a healthy #vms. I'll be in #hecnet there
myself.
Good idea, go for it. I suggest everyone use the freenode channel
instead.
I already have a #decnet channel on freenode. I mainly intended it for
DECnet on Linux people but there's only been two of us on there for
ages! so more are welcome :-)
--
Chrissie
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:49 -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655
(non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
There's something about using IRC for DEC stuff that strikes me as
inconsistent. (I'm being a real DEC/VMS bigot here...)
This is one of the places where that's OK! :)
Better if there were a multi-user version of PHONE. :)
DECNotes isn't real time...
I agree. I think that at some point someone should develop a VMS-native
IRC client. I would do it, but I am simply not sufficiently skilled at
software development under VMS yet.
However, I've written a minimalist IRC client which was originally
intended to facilitate using IRC for those who are not familiar with it.
Via SSH it is available at host toresbe.homelinux.org - the username is
hecnet, and so is the password. If telnet is preferred, I can set that
up on short notice.
It connects to the channel on Freenode.
Please feel free to try it out.
Regards,
-Tore :)
On 17 Aug 2008, at 19:29, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
Can't we please do this on a recognized, stable network - Freenode
(irc.freenode.net) strikes me as being a very nice network for this kind
of thing, and it already has a healthy #vms. I'll be in #hecnet there
myself.
Good idea, go for it. I suggest everyone use the freenode channel instead.
Sampsa
fantastic idea, and I'm connecting after hitting "Send" - who knows, it
might lead to the development of a proper VMS-style IRC client - I'm
How about something that answers PHONE requests and connects the caller to an IRC server?
Seems the way to go.
Sampsa
At 11:49 AM -0500 8/17/08, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
There's something about using IRC for DEC stuff that strikes me as inconsistent. (I'm being a real DEC/VMS bigot here...)
Better if there were a multi-user version of PHONE. :)
DECNotes isn't real time...
Alas - I'm not entitled to an opinion, since my systems off-line now anyway!
Well the only DECnotes server I'm aware of is currently powered off, and won't be back on HECnet for at least a month. Right now it is so hot most of my stuff is powered down (major heat wave), my Area Router was already off due to a howling fan, and now we're getting ready to move. We hope heat will be less of an issue in the new place, and I'm going to pay more attention to setting things up in such a way that I can stay online all the time. I suspect once I get back online it will be with either a VAXstation 4000/60 or /90 as my area router instead of the /vlc.
ISTR seeing at least IRC clients for VMS, but am not sure. I've never bothered to figure out IRC.
Zane
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| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
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On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 11:24 -0700, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Does PHONE do multi-user?
It does two people (Well, two people is technically "multi-user" :-)
Seriously, though, PHONE is pretty simple compared to IRC. However,
remember that we are talking antique systems here - it's probably the
closest analog that exists.
At least VMS Phone as of 5.0 does more than two users. But fitting it
all on the 80x24 screen it expects will become progressively less
trivial as users arrive.
-Tore :)
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:37 +0100, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port
6655 (non-standard port, I know).
I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can.
Although I think that putting up an IRC channel for HECnet is a
fantastic idea, and I'm connecting after hitting "Send" - who knows, it
might lead to the development of a proper VMS-style IRC client - I'm
quite opposed to the "network per channel" thing: It strikes me a bit as
having a mail server for each address, or insisting on setting up a new
computer for every user account.
Can't we please do this on a recognized, stable network - Freenode
(irc.freenode.net) strikes me as being a very nice network for this kind
of thing, and it already has a healthy #vms. I'll be in #hecnet there
myself.
I don't have any active hosts at the moment either - it is still summer!
- but I still feel entitled to whine ;)
Regards,
-Tore :)
Does PHONE do multi-user?
It does two people (Well, two people is technically "multi-user" :-)
Seriously, though, PHONE is pretty simple compared to IRC. However,
remember that we are talking antique systems here - it's probably the
closest analog that exists.
Bob
Does PHONE do multi-user?
Sampsa
On 17 Aug 2008, at 18:58, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Well if you've got a better and more DEC oriented I'm open torunning
that too... :)
There's PHONE, which works on VMS and RSX, at least, maybe more.
Bob
