<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2021, at 8:36 AM, Supratim Sanyal <<a href="mailto:supratim@riseup.net" class="">supratim@riseup.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">On 11/11/21 3:53 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:87658165-121e-a49f-6b31-e717a5aa64ce@softjar.se" class="">If a
specific format is needed for RSTS/E nodes, I can create that
format file whenever the nodename database is updated. Just let me
know what the format should be.
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</blockquote><p class=""><font face="monospace" class="">$ type defnod.cmd<br class="">
<b class="">SET VER</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">SET NOON</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP DEFINE NODE 1.1 NAME MAGICA</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP DEFINE NODE 1.2 NAME ERNIE</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP DEFINE NODE 1.3 NAME FNATTE</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">...</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">...</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP DEFINE NODE 62.637 NAME CTAKAH</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP SET NODE 1.1 NAME MAGICA</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP SET NODE 1.2 NAME ERNIE</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP SET NODE 1.3 NAME FNATTE</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">...</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">...</b><b class=""><br class="">
</b><b class="">NCP SET NODE 62.637 NAME CTAKAH</b><br class="">
</font></p></div></div></blockquote></div>The "set" commands are a nice additional item but the define commands are the important part. If you include the set commands the running system is updated at that time; if you leave them out, it will be up to date at the next DECnet restart.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>