Good afternoon:
Recently acquired an AlphaStation 255/233 and put OpenVMS 8.3 on it, got SMTP working, lots of layered products, etc. Was wondering if there is an area router nearby (Ohio, United States, although I realize it doesn't necessarily have to be "nearby") that is runinng DECNet over IP that could allow me onto the network.
Feel free to ask what my system specifics are and such. I fully expect to have to change my network number, but hopefully not my node name (which is MISER).
Cheers,
Fred
I've always meant to check if PHONE handles if you set yor terminal to more than 24 lines as well... Maybe I should check now... :-)
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. As I recall, PHONE uses the SCR$ library which was quite limited and only supported 24 rows. That was one of the improvements available by using the SMG$ library (as well as being able to use custom-defined terminals in TERMTABLE).
--Marc
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Got any notes on that?
I don't have my notes any more ... it was a long time ago now! But the
source is freely available, and (I hope) fairly easy to follow. The
commands are all single byte (see common.h) and the rest is plain text.
The download URL is
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/linux-decnet/dnprogs-2.43.tar.gz?modtime=1…
On 18 Aug 2008, at 08:06, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Just to get a feel for it, does anyone know if PHONE exposes any kind of
API that would be possible to code against? I wouldn't mind having a go
at learning more about VMS coding and trying to make a PHONE->IRC
adapter.
I don't think phone has an API - but I did reverse-engineer the protocol
for Linux and it's fairly simple.
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Chrissie
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Chrissie
Got any notes on that?
Sampsa
On 18 Aug 2008, at 08:06, Christine Caulfield wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Just to get a feel for it, does anyone know if PHONE exposes any kind of
API that would be possible to code against? I wouldn't mind having a go
at learning more about VMS coding and trying to make a PHONE->IRC adapter.
I don't think phone has an API - but I did reverse-engineer the protocol
for Linux and it's fairly simple.
--
Chrissie
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Just to get a feel for it, does anyone know if PHONE exposes any kind of
API that would be possible to code against? I wouldn't mind having a go
at learning more about VMS coding and trying to make a PHONE->IRC adapter.
I don't think phone has an API - but I did reverse-engineer the protocol
for Linux and it's fairly simple.
--
Chrissie
Phil Mendelsohn skrev:
Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
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.
You can always set your VT to 132 column... ;)
I've always meant to check if PHONE handles if you set yor terminal to more than 24 lines as well... Maybe I should check now... :-)
Johnny
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Sampsa Laine wrote:
Just to get a feel for it, does anyone know if PHONE exposes any kind of API that would be possible to code against? I wouldn't mind having a go at learning more about VMS coding and trying to make a PHONE->IRC adapter.
The beauty of VMS (when used properly) is that this should all be handled through system calls; the API for "everything" *is* the OS. (Though plenty of folks {found|find} wheels to reinvent) ;)
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"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
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.
You can always set your VT to 132 column... ;)
--
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."
--Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
Just to get a feel for it, does anyone know if PHONE exposes any kind of API that would be possible to code against? I wouldn't mind having a go at learning more about VMS coding and trying to make a PHONE->IRC adapter.
Sampsa
Sampsa Laine skrev:
Does PHONE do multi-user?
If you by multi-user mean more than two persons having a conversation, then yes.
Johnny
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
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
