[HECnet] NETGEN problems....

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: Bob Armstrong skrev: All this HECnet discussion has inspired me to try and install DECnet on a RSX-11M+ system. Man! This RSX NETGEN is only for the determined and persistent, isn't it? In any case, I managed to extract the PREGEN.CMD file from the tape to [137,10] and execute it. This is what happens - @PREGEN .... lots of stuff deleted .... * 02.00 Are you running on a small dual-disk system? [Y/N]: N * 04.00 Where is the Network distribution kit loaded [S]: MS0: * 04.01 Is the tape already loaded in MS0:? [Y/N]: Y * 04.02 Is the tape 1600 BPI? [Y/N]: Y ... FLX -- File not found MS0:[137,10]NETMOV.DAT FLX -- File not found MS0:[137,10]NETMOV.DAT ; ; Error - The file MS0:[137,10]NETMOV.DAT could not be copied. ; Hmmm... No file named NETMOV.DAT on the tape ... Doing a directory of my DECNET-11M-PLUS tape, I see these files - FLX TT:=MS0:/DI Directory MS0:[137,10] 23-Aug-80 PREGEN.CMD 94. 13-Jun-89 <233> DECMOV.DAT 15. 13-Jun-89 <233> DECCFG.CMD 5. 13-Jun-89 <233> DECPRM.CMD 7. 13-Jun-89 <233> DECGEN.CLB 699. 13-Jun-89 <233> DECGEN.KIT 1. 13-Jun-89 <233> Total of 821. blocks in 6. files Odd - there's a file DECMOV but not NETMOV. After much head scratching and reading of the cryptic PREGEN.CMD indirect command processor file, I've come to the conclusion that there are really three tapes in the RSX "DECnet" distribution - a "generic" network tape (that's the one with NETMOV.DAT (which unfortunately I don't have), a DECnet specific tape (which seems to be the one tape I do have) and a PSI network tape (which I think is optional). Can any RSX wizard confirm this? Hmm. You're running an "old" version of RSX are you? :-) Yeah, it used to be two parts, and both had to be copied in, if I remember correctly. It's been a while since I used one of those... 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 Hello! I would comment, but Johnny did me the favor of doing so. However there's a <BLEEP!> load of items related to what we discuss here roosting on Trailing-Edge's sites. For example there is the (mirrored) site for the pdp-11 (PDP-11) site, and they also have an FTP site, ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com in there that's where I found enough software to make me want to find a PDP-11/53 start doing something. (I still haven't.) ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway."