[HECnet] What use are *you* making of HECnet?

[Kari Uusim ki]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
Jason Stevens wrote:
I see... yeah I have a VMS image, but really no idea how to setup it's
networking... I 'used' VMS as a user ages ago, although it was mostly
using EDT and fighting the gold key thing on terminals....

Anyways is there some online docs on setting up VMS's networking?   I'd
love to be able to dig deeper into this....
The good thing is that playing around like this is really the best way of learning. And I think you should play more. I might be wrong, so don't take anything I write as the gospel. :-)
As for docs... Well, the full documentation for VMS is available online at HP, if you can live with fairly recent documentation.
But I seem to remember that it wasn't that difficult to get it running. I think there is a script you run to set things up, and after you've run that, you're basically set.

Quite right. Setting DECnet (Phase IV) up on a VMS machine is really simple. You have to decide your DECnet address and whether your machine is an end node or a router (L1 or L2). The script will ask all the necessary questions. You run it as follows:
$ @netconfigure.com

Further on you'll start it by running:

$ @startnet.com



Kari



But I know I'm very vague here. Better to wait for someone else to answer, perhaps. I know myself around VMS, and have been working with it on and off for over 20 years, but I'm really more familiar with RSX these days, and have to experiment a bit every time I set down with VMS before I remember how you're supposed to do it there. :-)
      Johnny