23 Jan
2026
23 Jan
'26
5:13 p.m.
On 23/01/2026 17.07, Keith Halewood wrote:
Is DECnet finger supposed to interoperate with tcp/ip
finger at some
point, hence the CRLF (though shouldn’t
that just be LF?
The TCP/IP finger spec says that each line should end with CR+LF.
As for "interoperate", I'm not sure how you mean that. But I can tell
that my RSX implementation talks over both DECnet, TCP/IP and locally.
But generally, I'm trying to advocate for as much alignment between the
DECnet and TCP/IP finger as possible. Obviously the network underlying
functions are not identical, but beyond that I prefer that we align as
much as is reasonable. So CR+LF at each line end. In DECnet, be aware of
the size of packets sent. At the moment, I suggest each packet sent is
just one line, but if we can work out, and agree on some other value,
I'm happy to comply. But it can't be huge, as a PDP-11 do not have
unlimited memory. :-)
Johnny