[HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

[Paul_Koning at Dell.com]

Neither.   CTERM is not implemented at all on RSTS -- we never had any inclination to try because it is a very bad fit to RSTS terminal behavior, and it's very complex.   So it has all the disadvantages of the old VMS/RSX protocols plus many more.

What exists is two implementations of the older protocol.   The standard install gives you only the RSTS flavor of that protocol; the "unsupported" (program "netuns") gives you all four variants, so you can talk to VMS, RSX, RT11, TOPS-10, TOPS-20.   It should be on the DECnet kit, but I don't have a kit handy or the scripts that create one so I can't tell how precisely to find it.

Then on the VMS end you need the older object (possibly called "RTERM") installed so the RSTS end has something to talk to.   And similarly in the other direction, you need some magic switch on the Set Host command on VMS to tell it to speak the pre-CTERM protocol.

	paul

On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:

But CTERM doesn't work without some patch or something that nobody seems to be able to find?

Sampsa


On 30 Oct 2012, at 22:39, Steve Davidson wrote:

Yes.

-Steve 

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Subject: [HECnet] RSTS/E + DECNET 4.1

Has anyone actually managed to get this to work (i.e. RSTS/E 
+ DECNET 4.1)? :)

Sampsa