I finished the auto-mounting code for Tops-20 DAP, viz:
NFT>dir venti2::dsk*:<Help>units.hlp
VENTI2::TOMMYT:<HELP>
UNITS.HLP.1;P777752 1 2210(7) 28-Apr-1980 17:23:03
VENTI2::TOPS20:<HELP>
UNITS.HLP.1;P777752 1 2210(7) 28-Apr-1980 17:23:03
NFT>
Over in FAL, one finds the following debugging output:
[Received Access message (Flg=LEN Cnt=30.)]
[Parsing Access message]
[DSK*: PS:<HELP>UNITS.HLP.1, JFN 7, Unit* High]
[Trying file TOMMYT:<Help>units.hlp]
[Assigned JFN 7, Unit* High]
.
.
.
[Trying file STAR:<Help>units.hlp]
[Failed. No such directory name]
[Mounted file structure TOPS20: on behalf of SLOGIN]
[Trying file TOPS20:<Help>units.hlp]
[Assigned JFN 7, Unit* High]
.
.
.
[Dismounted file structure TOPS20: on behalf of SLOGIN]
Like many things I do, I tend to have an overly optimistic if not naive idea of the development involved and bump into edge cases. I had to split DAPLIB up into three separate sources to accommodate the changes, which kept getting longer as I found another case I hadn't considered.
The same thing happened in spades when I put NRT support into Kermit-20. The changes were so pervasive that I started looking around for regression tests. C-Kermit itself has wonderful scripting, which you can even use to write a compiler. But not testing scripts, so I wrote my own batch control files.
Anybody know what's available for DECnet; in particular, DAP? I
seem to remember there being something for UETP, but it wasn't
extensive.