11 Nov
2021
11 Nov
'21
11:30 p.m.
Yes, I understand that.
Clearly the Tops-20 implementation is limited in that nothing the NCP
can do will write the permanent node store.? Only SETNODE can do that.?
It's kind of schizophrenic, really.
On 11/11/21 5:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2021-11-11 22:44, Paul Koning wrote:
And then you have SHOW/LIST.
On Nov 11, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
So that's the difference between SET and DEFINE?? Gee, that's
deluxe!? What a great idea!
It's part of the DECnet management specification, but the
implementations vary.? There is a "permanent" and "volatile"
database; the volatile one lasts only for a single DECnet run. DEFINE
and PURGE operate on the permanent database, SET and CLEAR on the
volatile. In RSTS, both are manipuated by NCP.? In some
other DECnet
implementations, the permanent database operations are in a different
program but use the standard syntax; I think RSX does it that way.
Yes, RSX have a different program to manipulate the permanent db.
Commands are still the same as mentioned above.
And just to make one more thing clear to Thomas - this is about more
than just defining node names. All kind of DECnet configuration stuff
goes through here.
? Johnny