HECnet September 2022

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Ultrix support for Tops-10/Tops-20 NRT!!

by Thomas DeBellis

After I put the changes into Tops-20 Kermit to recognize Ultrix and properly check protocol, I finally got around to testing it against few hosts on HECnet. As I had dimly recalled from the late 1980's, Ultrix supports Tops-10/Tops-20 NRT, viz: Kermit-20>c nofar/st [Remote system *NOFAR*:: is running _ULTRIX-32_] [KERMIT-20: Connecting to DECnet node NOFAR::] and also: Kermit-20>c ostara/stay [Remote system *OSTARA*:: is running _ULTRIX-32_] [KERMIT-20: Connecting to DECnet node OSTARA::] Sure made my day! When I finish wringing some more bugs out of Kermit-20 (I'm redoing the parity routines to use string instructions), I'll see about testing against Ultrix in addition to Tops-10 and older versions of Tops-20 Kermit (I've got them going back to the 1980's) SETHOST currently cannot connect to these hosts as it reports incorrect configuration messages. That's probably an easy enough fix.

1 year, 7 months

HOWTO for VAX/VMS DECnet-Plus open_simh HDLC support and P.S.I.

by Trevor Warwick

I recently added HDLC framing support to the DUP11 and DPV11 devices in open_simh. This has only so far been tested with DECnet-Plus on VMS. I wrote up another couple of examples, showing how to use HDLC as a DECnet datalink, and also how to try a basic configuration of VAX P.S.I. for X.25 communication. They're here: https://notlikethatlikethis.blogspot.com/

1 year, 7 months

pyDECnet --daemon option?

by Robert Armstrong

Paul (or anybody) - has the -daemon (aka "-d") option been removed from pyDECnet v596? It's still listed in the doc files, but running it gives pydecnet: error: unrecognized arguments: --daemon Bob

1 year, 7 months

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