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Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS

by bqt＠softjar.se

Since I'm on a roll today, I figure I should announce the availability of a new tool for RSX, which I think most hobbyists will find rather useful. RPM is a packet manager for RSX (it has nothing to do with the Red Hat Packet Manager, except the name). Over the years, I have found it becoming an ever growing hassle to manually download, build and install all the different tools that I am used to have on different systems. Not to mention the headaches when trying to help others and providing software for them as well. RPM is an attempt at automating this, and making more software available for all people with a small effort. I hope it will also help in getting more people on to the actual latest version of various tools. Historically, much software like this was distributed through DECUS, and the various symposium tapes tried to distribute updates, but it was a very fragmented world, where parallel development often happened, based on different versions. RPM will now allow people to see what is the actual latest version around, and if they want to work on something, they can do that based on this. RPM is by no means perfect, and in fact are missing a whole bunch of things, but it is now at a stage where it is actually usable and useful, so therefore I'm doing this announcement now. RPM is essentially a tool to track what software is available and what software is installed. It can install and remove software, and it can update it to new versions when new versions become available. It can also be involved as a part of the boot process to automatically install any tasks that are part of installed packages. It can fetch information both over DECnet and TCP/IP, and is written in IND, and uses cleartext configuration and status files, and packages are universal libraries. Feel free to contact me about any issues, problems, wishes, or whatever. I can't guarantee that anything gets down, but there is always a bigger chance if I know about it. The software is also freely available, and contributions from others are also very welcome. So, with that presentation done, here are the practical details: To use RPM, you need to fetch one file to your machine: RPM.PKG. It can be found at: HECnet: MIM::LB:[RPM]RPM.PKG Inetnet: ftp://rpm at mim.update.uu.se/rpm.pkg Once you have downloaded that file, you need to extract two files, using the following commands: LBR RPM=RPM.PKG/EX:RPM LBR CONFIG=RPM.PKG/EX:CONFIG After that, edit CONFIG.CMD using your favorite editor. The file should contain enough explanation and examples for what you need to setup. After you've done that editing, give the command: @RPM FETCH this will setup the list of what packages are available. After that, you can do @RPM LIST to show what packages there are. It's not necessary, but I would recommend the next thing is: @RPM INSTALL RPM this moves the RPM package manager itself under control of RPM, so that you automatically get new improvements installed when they are available. Of course, you can then download packages (@RPM FETCH pkg), get information about packages (@RPM INFO pkg), install packages (@RPM INSTALL pkg), or just update them (@RPM UPDATE pkg). However, apart from the INSTALL option, to just install those packages you really would like to have, the most used option will probably be "ALL", which does a fetch of the latest package list, and then updates any packages that should be updated. You could in fact just place that in a batch file to be run once in a while, and have your software updated all the time without having to think about it. Or else, just once in a while do a @RPM FETCH @RPM LIST to see which packages have new updates available, and then you can just update the ones you want to. Finally, it is possible to run without giving any option/command at all, in which case RPM goes into interactive mode, with a menu showing what you can do. It is also possible to run from the command line with multiple commands. Each command should be separated from the others using "+" in that case. For example: @RPM FETCH+LIST As for what packages are available - I have started making some available that I have been using and working on for many years. I have plenty more software that I will make available. If anyone else have software they would like to make available, I can provide some quick information on how you create your own packages as well, and I can also host packages from other people at Mim. Also, for the time being, I have mostly focused on binary packages with executables. I can certainly see that eventually I would also do packages for the sources of things. It's mostly a case of priorities. Even though creating a package is now a fairly easy task, it do grow with the number of files and stuff you want to put in there. If anyone wants sources for some specific software for which I have made a package, the sources are also on Mim, and are usually readable by anyone. Ask me if you have any questions, and for the most part, all of the software is freely available in sources as well. Also, the binaries are built for RSX-11M-PLUS. While some might work on 11M as well, I have not tried this, nor am I going to try and handle it. There could also be an issue with some software if installed on older versions of RSX-11M-PLUS (before V4.0). I would think it should mostly work, but will not make any guarantees about that either. (If anyone really is running such old versions, they should update to a newer version of RSX instead). Johnny -- 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

5 years, 3 months

Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

by bqt＠softjar.se

Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: . Improvements to TCP performance. . Bugfixes and improvements for DNS/mDNS. . RSX security improvement. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: TCP: . Bugfix in longword arithmetic condition code setup. This affected performance and stability of TCP communication. . Improved TCP retransmit logic. TCP now better handles when retransmitting, and getting an acknowledge of parts of the data. previously, this could lead to very long retransmit times. DNS/mDNS: . Bugfix in DNS resolver. Possible stack corruption in some situation. . Added MDNS as a separate resolver type. . Bugfix in resolver. mDNS reverse lookups were not responded to. . Bugfix in resolver. Resolver could fail to join multicast group at startup. . Improved DNS timeout handling. If trying to resolve an ambiguous name only do local lookup if global lookup fails. FTP: . Bugfix in FTP. If user failed to log in, FTP client got out of sync with server. . Improve FTP client. Exit with status reflecting state in FTP session. MAILD: . Added a possibility to have an SMTP relay for all outgoing mail. Installation: . Improved installation process, and added IP configuration for mDNS and UTC offset for NTP. RSX: . Bugfix in RSX. INS did not properly set uic if /UIC was given. Some additional notes: As usual, I would recommend people to update as soon as possible. The changes are not critical, but will lead to a much better experience. For the RSX fixes to be applied, it is necessary to answer yes to the question about installing RSX patches. Otherwise those fixes will not be installed. This does not lead to any failures, but it might lead to some components running exactly the way you might be expecting (such as daemons running under the wrong user). As usual, the distribution is available from: ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk (As an additional note, I have become aware of that there is some device proxying access to the ftp service at Mim. This might lead to failure to transfer large files. If you observe such problems, try connecting to Mim at port 10021 instead, which is an alternative port for the ftp server, and which circumvents the proxy.) The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. Johnny -- 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

5 years, 3 months

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5 years, 3 months

VMS V4.6 in operation - it was an Adventure

by wboerhout＠gmail.com

Dear all, Following the announcement of the VSI "community licence" program, and the fact that VAX software will *not* be licensed by VSI, I have downgraded my VAXcluster to V4.6 I even implemented Adventure (both the "350" and the "551" version). Check my article on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/almost-back-future-wilm-boerhout/ I will be taking requests for guest accounts on VAX046. You *will* be **in a twisty maze of little passages. *Wilm*

5 years, 3 months

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5 years, 3 months

Note to PyDECnet users

by paulkoning＠comcast.net

Gentlepeople, If you use PyDECnet as an area router, please make sure you're running rev 485 or later. There is a bug in older versions that sends incorrect routing messages to out of area neighbors, causing bad routes. paul

5 years, 4 months

BQTCP without DECnet

by lee.gleason＠comcast.net

? I'm working on an 11/73 running Mplus? that is tight on disk space, to the point that DECnet won't fit. I was wondering if RSX TCP/IP (that consumes less disk space) would work on a Q bus machine without DECnet. It's documented as possible for Unibus machines - can it work on a QBus system? -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.gleason at comcast.net -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

5 years, 4 months

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