For VMS, for the moment I've gone with one of Bob's machines as that is
on the 'local' DECnet area.? Perhaps I'll get better performance
although Supratim is closer, milage-wise.? D.C. is about a 5 hour drive
from here, while Bob's neck of the woods is a serious hike (Atlantic to
Pacific).
On 4/22/20 11:14 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Well, the more the better, so get that VMS account. If
you want to, I
can create an account for you on MIM as well. (But it will be
tomorrow, I need to go to bed...)
? Johnny
On 2020-04-23 05:12, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
Yes, but the MIM guest account is shared; I'm
going to need to store
a few files (captures, control files, Etc.)
Wow, you've kept a real VAX running from 1993?? Good for you! I'll
contact you off-list.
On 4/22/20 11:07 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>
> Thomas - MIM already has a guest account ... I have had fun sending
> Johnny smtp emails to that account.
>
> I can give you an account on MARIAH (a real VAX) if you wish, shoot
> me a note offline if you decide to follow up ...
>
> Regards
>
> Supratim
>
> On 4/22/20 10:49 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>> I've had my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and have turned to
>> some other things as sort of a 'break'.? The Tops-10 NFT client
>> breaks on certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is
>> going to be some debugging to track that down.? Fortunately, a very
>> patient person gave me PPN on one of their 10's.
>>
>> Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit
>> more up to date with respect to DECnet communications. These were
>> largely put aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still,
>> the PANDA distribution has some bit rot because I know that certain
>> Columbia changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not there.? I
>> can't imagine that we didn't send them to MRC; that would have been
>> unthinkable.
>>
>> Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them back
>> so that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again.? It had been
>> suffering from about two minute timing delays and now it's
>> instantaneous between 20's, like I remember.?? Oddly enough, I
>> don't remember what else ran SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that RSX
>> and VMS could have done it.? I think some VMS site might have.
>>
>> However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11,
>> which the 20 also groks.? In fact, it can convert Mail-11 addresses
>> to SMTP and route over other transports such as PUP, Chaos and
>> TCP/IP as well as DECnet.? We did a lot of mail routing for CCnet
>> to the Internet on CU20B, back in the day.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20 Mail-11
>> code, so I've got some tinkering to do.? Does anyone have a VMS or
>> RSX system that they'd care to give me a guest account on?? It
>> doesn't need any special capabilities; I'm just going to be sending
>> mail and looking a few raw headers over.
>>
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