17 Dec
2021
17 Dec
'21
1:22 a.m.
Progress -- I found a pile of info in the RSTS NCP sources, of all places. And this
actually makes sense, because those were originally created from the RSX NCP as it was
around 1980. It even shows some DECnet/RT code points (but no VMS ones).
paul
On Dec 16, 2021, at 5:47 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
Better than nothing, but definitely not exhaustive. I know... But that's the only
thing I have apart from sources.
Johnny
On 2021-12-16 23:03, Paul Koning wrote:
Thanks. That gives parameter code points. It
doesn't seem to give request function codes, nor how the message is encoded. NICE
standard formatting seems plausible but the standard doesn't require that.
paul
> On Dec 16, 2021, at 5:07 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> Paul - http://mim.update.uu.se/manuals/network/decnet2.pdf appendix F will have at
least a little bit of stuff for you.
>
> Johnny
>
> On 2021-12-16 02:15, Paul Koning wrote:
>> I'm thinking it would be nice (in the tools with PyDECnet) to be able to do
not just standard NICE requests like any other NCP, but also system-specific ones.
>> I can find out what the RSTS ones look like, but I don't know about other
systems. I'm pretty sure that both VMS and RSX have system-specific requests, SHOW
and/or SET, for things like network objects or logical links and perhaps other stuff. Is
there documentation that describes these? Does anyone have information handy?
>> A few days ago VMS listings (from fiche) appeared in Bitsavers, and I suppose I
can try to read NCP listings that are in there. Chances are they are in BLISS which I
don't know at all...
>> paul
>
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