[HECnet] Central nodename database lookup tool

Johnny, There is a serious problem with your database thing, it must be corrupting the GEO coordinates: 59.858612 17.638744 is the central square in Uppsala, MIN:: is located at abt: 59.84145130853427, 17.647929315759676 --P (I did my basic military service in one of the buildings where UU is located today,and we had several things that used lat/long that we trained on in the field between Dag Hammarskjolds V}g and the buildings...) ----- Original Message ----- > Hi, all. > > If you are running an RSX system on HECnet, and you'd like a simple > command line tool to check some information about other nodes, as it is > registered in the Datatrieve database I keep on MIM, I've written one now. > > It does require that you have the PDP-11 C runtime libraries installed > (they are installed as a part of BQTCP, and also exists as a component > in RPM). > > Just grab MIM::HECNET:DDB.TSK, install it, and off you go. > If you want the sources (it's really simple) they can be found at > MIM::HECNET:DDB.C and you also have a Makefile there that compiles it > for you, in case you want to experiment some. > > Example run: > > .ddb mim > Node: MIM > Address: 1.13 > Owner: Johnny Billquist > OS: RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 > CPU: PDP-11/74 (e11) > Created: 12 Nov 2011 12:00:00 > Modified: 02 May 2020 19:45:49 > Loc: Uppsala, Sweden > Coord: 59.858612,17.638744 > > . > > I just thought it could be useful to have sometimes, and it's also a > good exercise in interfacing between Datatrieve and PDP-11 C. > > 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