[HECnet] DECnet performance problems (on TOPS-10)

[gerry77 at mail.com]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:38:09 +0200, you wrote:

Indeed, I was also looking for a third-party implementation in the DECUS
archives: if I'm not wrong, older VMS like V4.7 already did CTERM, but had
no /APP=R qualifier in SET HOST, so there was no apparent way to switch from
CTERM back to RTERM like we can do now with newer VMS. So, I was hoping
someone back then wrote a RTERM client to be used with such vintage VMS
releases (which I'd try in V8), but I've still found nothing. :-\

I bet it was a separate application back in VMS V4, instead of being a 
switch to SET HOST. Or else a different switch back then...

Not really: I've just discovered that RTPAD.EXE (the program behind the SET
HOST command) falls back to RTERM if CTERM cannot be used, e.g. if object 42
is not defined at the remote node. This at least in V4.7. :)

(There is apparently no way to use RTERM when CTERM is available.)

Bye,
G.