On 2013-01-14 20:33, Brian Hechinger wrote: I'm an IP guy, hands down. DECnet I actually have very little experience using aside from just being a consumer of current services. What I would like to know is how I create a program that, in IP nuances, "listens on a port" for a client to connect. Specifically VMS in this case. Paul explained a little bit how it functions, but he wasn't sure how that was done on VMS either. Anyone have any good pointers? That should be in the DECnet/VMS manuals, I would think. Afraid I can't help more, except for doing what you need to do, which is just start reading through the manual set. I could help more if we were talking RSX... ;-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol