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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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... ;)
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"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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Bob Armstrong skrev:
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.
TOPS-20 also have a PHONE utility.
Johnny
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Phil Mendelsohn skrev:
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. :)
What do you mean multi-user? I assume you know that you can have more than two persons in a phone conversation?
However, it isn't like IRC, where you just connect to somewhere to get all the data fed there.
Oh well. I'll keep with mail, as usual. Always reachable at MIM::BILLQUIST :-)
Johnny
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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
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
