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<p>It's nothing like VMS, but that is an extremely long and
unfortunate story. DECnet appears to have been designed into VMS
from the start and appears well integrated whereas Tops-20's
antecedents (TENEX) completely predate DECnet. The original
networking interface was NCP: (I.E., ARPAnet).</p>
<p>In certain ways, Tops-20 DECnet appears as kind of a 'bolt-on',
some of it not fully productized. The 7 series monitor code is
robust, but the user utilities are not fully documented and
exhibit certain programming flaws. At Columbia we fixed a great
deal of these, SPR'ed them and yet the changes appear lost. I
used to have magtapes someplace...</p>
<p>I'll have a look at FAL; at first glance it has no hooks for a
default account, which would then allow complete system access. I
still have to complete fixing the issue in DAP that causes it to
break when listing long directories (which triggers another glitch
in GLXLIB...) DAP seems strangely incomplete; it is missing code
to do renames which struck me as remarkable.</p>
<p>However, checking out what VMS does is never a bad idea.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 7/3/2019 11:36 AM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
I've no idea what TOPS20 does, but ...
On VMS the NETCONFIG script creates a default account for FAL called FAL$SERVER. Anonymous access to FAL just logs in using this account and you can see whatever files are in the associated login directory, typically SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER].
TOPS20 probably uses different names, but I imagine that the basic idea is similar...
Bob
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE">mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>] On Behalf Of Thomas DeBellis
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 5:15 AM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hecnet@Update.UU.SE">hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>
Subject: [HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)
I have some software that I'd like to post, but don't recall how to configure FAL to allow for an anonymous connection; to download from a restricted directory.
I know how to do it for the FTP server (seeing as I wrote it), but ... different code base.
I can only vaguely remember what we did for CCnet at Columbia University in the 1980's, but I think it was kind of a hack.
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