[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-15 18:42, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-04-15 18:36, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 04/15/2015 12:34 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>     Any idea of why I might get "access control rejected" when
>>>> trying to
>>>> get a directory of MIM::US:[FTP] from RSX, but not from VMS?  I
>>>> probably
>>>> have something incorrectly configured in nft.
>>>
>>> My guess would be that you have not enabled proxy on your RSX system,
>>> but have on VMS.
>>> Since RSX do not have a default DECnet account like VMS do, I instead
>>> have a general proxy setup where anyone unknown will be proxyed as
>>> guest, but it does require that the connection request to MIM have
>>> outgoing proxy enabled.
>>
>>    Ok, that makes sense, thanks for the pointer.  I will look that up and
>> get it configured.
>>
>>    While you're there, do you have a suggestion for the "path of least
>> resistance" to install F77 and BP2 on this machine?  I have the
>> trailing-edge dists as .tpc files.
>
> It will be hard to use the TPC files directly. Easiest is if you have
> some emulator around on which you can mount those tape images.
>
> Inside RSX there is a tool and subsystem called VCP and VF:, which you
> use to handle virtual tapes which maps to files on a disk. Use that to
> copy the "physical" tape to a virtual tape inside RSX, and then you can
> move that file around between systems using DECnet or TCP/IP.

By the way, I hope you know that the BP2 V2.7 tape on trailing-edge is 
corrupt... The V2.5 tape is OK though.

	Johnny