[HECnet] Re: DECnet Finger Specification (Possible re-post) and Tops-20 Finger Setup Documentation (New)

There are now CRLFs on outbound lines, one record per line, one message per line. By interoperate, I meant that @host might signal a tcp/ip finger call to host whereas host:: would be decnet. K -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Billquist [mailto:bqt@softjar.se] Sent: 23 January 2026 16:14 To: hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se Subject: [HECnet] Re: DECnet Finger Specification (Possible re-post) and Tops-20 Finger Setup Documentation (New) On 23/01/2026 17.07, Keith Halewood wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ HECnet mailing list -- hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se To unsubscribe send an email to hecnet-leave(a)lists.dfupdate.se