11 Nov
2021
11 Nov
'21
11:04 p.m.
On 2021-11-11 22:44, Paul Koning wrote:
And then you have SHOW/LIST.
On Nov 11, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Thomas DeBellis
<tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
So that's the difference between SET and DEFINE? Gee, that's deluxe! What a
great idea!
It's part of the DECnet management specification, but the implementations vary.
There is a "permanent" and "volatile" database; the volatile one lasts
only for a single DECnet run. DEFINE and PURGE operate on the permanent database, SET and
CLEAR on the volatile. In RSTS, both are manipuated by NCP. In some other
DECnet implementations, the permanent database operations are in a different program but
use the standard syntax; I think RSX does it that way.
Yes, RSX have a different program to manipulate the permanent db.
Commands are still the same as mentioned above.
And just to make one more thing clear to Thomas - this is about more
than just defining node names. All kind of DECnet configuration stuff
goes through here.
Johnny
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