I know, I was kidding - sorry...:) On 21 Oct 2009, at 00:53, Peter Lothberg wrote: http://rhesus.sampsa.com/cgi-bin/hecnetinfo/hecnetinfo.com?q=coda Yes... But we want this to work on HECnet, right.. Need some help here, as I knew nothing about VMS... And VMS assumes the other side is a VMS box.. -P :-P On 21 Oct 2009, at 00:48, Peter Lothberg wrote: I took Sampsa's suggestion and put an INFO.TXT on CODA with a machine readable section at the end that contains information about the local nodes. I already wrote a little DCL script that crawls the HECnet and collects all the INFO.TXT files that it can find (so far there are eight, counting mine) and if enough people adopt this format I'll write another little script to parse out the node information. The format is pretty straight forward - you can just type out CODA::INFO.TXT and see for yourself. Bob NFT>print CODA::INFO.TXT Access information for node CODA::/ACCOUNT:decnet User: decnet Password: ?Remote node refused connection - Access not permitted NFT> And in non VMSnet speak? -P