[HECnet] Public Services over DECnet

A SYS$QIO is just a system call used to perform I/O. An AST is an "asynchronous system trap", otherwise known as an interrupt routine. An event flag is a process synchronisation mechanism. Regards Rob From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark J. Blair Sent: 30 December 2017 18:00 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Public Services over DECnet On Dec 30, 2017, at 06:05, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net <mailto:supratim at riseup.net> > wrote: My experience with OpenVMS was mostly doing SYS$QIOs, ASTs and Event Flags controlling factory shop-floor equipment I don't know what SYS$QIOs, ASTs or Event Flags are yet, but controlling factory shop floor equipment sounds like my cup of tea! Setting up anonymous file access sounds straightforward. I need to read up on access control for launching remote batch jobs. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net <mailto:nf6x at nf6x.net> > http://www.nf6x.net/