[HECnet] Configuring py-decnet. --> Tops20 patches

Hi Thomas, How are your patches related to the Panda distribution? Based upon as a reference or unrelated? There are a lot of cross platform problems within fal for instance like in Tops10, Best regards, Reindert From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Thomas DeBellis Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 22:44 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Configuring py-decnet. You and me both! I have over a 130 documented fixes and enhancements to Tops-20, some of them massive. This does not include what I've completely rewritten from scratch. Several items are in active development. Yet I have no idea who I'd give them to. A few might interest XKL, perhaps. I guess I'll do something Github, one of these days. I wore out all my vulgar language when Jupiter was cancelled. Seems like it's all 'Darn it', 'Golly' and 'Gee whiz' these days. _____ On 8/26/20 4:02 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Aw, shit! (Excuse my language.) I had more or less forgotten. Yes, as distributed, it has a bug. I have fixed it, but of course, noone else have that. For now, the simple solution, pick MIM::DU:[5,54]RRS.TSK, and you'll be good. Sigh! I really hope the whole DEC/Mentec/HP ownership mess can be sorted one day. I have about 100 fixes or improvements to RSX sitting... Johnny _____ On 2020-08-26 21:57, R. Voorhorst wrote: L.S. Is there something different with patch levels or otherwise? After successful login on Rsts 10.1: $ logout SAVED ALL DISK FILES ON SY: 6784 BLOCKS IN USE JOB 7 USER 1,2 LOGGED OFF KB24: AT 26-AUG-20 21:53 6 OTHER USERS STILL LOGGED IN UNDER THIS ACCOUNT SYSTEM RSTS V10.1-L RSTS/E V10.1 RUN TIME WAS .2 SECONDS ELAPSED TIME WAS 1 MINUTE GOOD EVENING SWBU01::RRS -- Remote disconnect SWBU01::RRS -- Control returned to node SWBU01:: MOV #20,R0 EM:065126 XDT> Best regards, Reindert -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2020 15:09 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Cc: Thord Nilson <mailto:thordn at gmail.com> <thordn at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HECnet] Configuring py-decnet. And to complement the picture a little more. On RSX, you need a program called RRS, which is provided among the "unsupported utilities" in the DECnet distribution. .rrs elvira MIM::RRS -- Connection established to node ELVIRA:: RSTS V10.1-L 26-Aug-20 14:41 User: 99,99 PASSWORD: LAST INTERACTIVE LOGIN ON 26-AUG-20, 02:36 AT KB21: $ Johnny On 2020-08-26 02:19, Thomas DeBellis wrote: Yeah, that's what I found out, too. On Tops-20, the CTERM client is called CTERM-SERVER (don't ask) whereas the NRT client is called SETHOST. SETHOST is /quite/ old and I had been hacking it for efficiency and fixing a few bugs. It now has an alternate debugging entry to try to force Tops-20 NRT (which will also work on Tops-10) and ignore the remote node type until it can't proceed any further. Here are the results from my own tests; they indicate that a CTERM (server) object does not exist on ELVIRA. I'm not sure, but I had thought that CTERM had not been done on RSTS/E. !cterm-sERVER.EXE.2 elvira [Attempting a connection, _CTERM Connect failed - Destination process does not exist_ !g ds:sethost !ree Escape character(^Y): Host name: ELVIRA:: [Connecting to remote host: ELVIRA] _?RSTS/E type systems do not support Tops-20 NRT communications._ On 8/25/20 8:09 PM, Paul Koning wrote: John, Some systems, like VMS, will use CTERM by default, and there isn't a CTERM listener on RSTS. So you have to tell it to use the "old protocol", whatever that involves on your OS. paul On Aug 25, 2020, at 7:24 PM,jy at xtra.co.nz <mailto:jy at xtra.co.nz> wrote: Hi Thord, Congratulations, I can see you're up at: http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/data I just tried a set host elvira and set hsot 59.53 but I'm getting "network object unknown at remote node". Cheers, John On 26 August 2020 at 11:14 Thord Nilson <mailto:thordn at gmail.com> <thordn at gmail.com> wrote: Hi all! Update! Basic connections are now working, so for a limited time you can: set host elvira:: login as 99,99 psw: testing Nothing much to see though. Thanks to all for your help! /Thord.