[HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

Mark,

On 2015-10-21 17:55, Mark Matlock wrote:
> Johnny,
>     Thanks for the PCL tasks! I've been wanting to experiment with more of the BQTCP/IP products but work keeps me traveling and I don't have a lot of time for the fun stuff.

You're welcome. I'm happy when I hear that people find this stuff is 
useful/fun.

>     Also, thanks for the advice on converting the .TPC tape to .TAP. I don't have physical tape on the 11/83 but use VCP on a SCSI2SD RA92 for virtual tape and use your ftp to move the .DSK and .TAP files. What I missed on VCP was that there is a COPY command, until I started taking a closer look at the release notes. Thank you for the pointer!!

You slightly confuse me when you talk about .TPC and .TAP files, as I 
normally associate those names with the format of tapes used by SimH, 
E11 and other emulators.
But if you are talking about them as the format of files inside RSX, 
then I'm ok.

TPC is an (old) tools from DECUS, which you can use. However, that just 
creates files that can be transported, and used to recreate the tape again.

TAP, in the meaning of virtual tapes inside RSX, as used by VCP, means 
you do not have to deal with TPC at all. VCP also create files which can 
be transported. FTP can transfer those files correctly to a remote 
machine, so no need for any converters. And VCP tape files can be 
mounted directly in RSX, meaning you can play with the them as tapes, as 
far as RSX is concerned.

So, as soon as you mange to access any tape from within the RSX 
environment, just copy the tape to a virtual tape inside RSX, and then 
you don't need to go out any more, and you are independent of actual 
hardware.

	Johnny

>
> Best Regards,
> Mark
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> Hi, Mark.
>>
>> Just cut a version where I now include PCL.TSK and PCLRES.TSK. (I have a bit of misnomer, as the ...RES.TSK files are actually using supervisor mode libraries. However, the task without RES at the end also use supervisor mode libraries, but that one only uses libraries that exist on all systems, so it should be usable by everyone.
>> PCLRES.TSK, as an example, on the other hand requires both the RMSRES supervisory library, and the PDP-11 C supervisor mode library installed.
>>
>> 	Johnny
>>
>> On 2015-10-21 04:48, Mark Matlock wrote:
>>> Johnny,
>>>       Again thanks for your efforts on BQTCP/IP.!!!
>>>
>>>        I do have one minor request. Could you supply a compiled task image for PCL?
>>>   I've been try to install PDP-11C on my 11/83 but the only .TPC tape that is not corrupted is V1.1 and although I have installed it on Simh, my 11/83 needs a .tap tape not .tpc and I have been trying to convert with TPC, but I don't have it done yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>> On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About four months since I last announced anything. There have been various development since, and I figured I should encourage people who are using BQTCP/IP for RSX to upgrade to the latest release.
>>>>
>>>> A short list of changes:
>>>>
>>>> TCP:
>>>> . Small bugfixes in various states.
>>>> . Bugfix in window handling. TCP reception could occasionally accept data outside of window.
>>>> . Added ability to dynamically change transmit and receive buffer size.
>>>> . Bugfix. SYN packets could result in lost pool if sockets were closed with outstanding SYN packets queued.
>>>> . Bugfix. If pool is full, system could crash on incoming connections.
>>>>
>>>> FTP:
>>>> . Added SUMMARY, PROMPT, MGET and MPUT commands.
>>>> . Improved filename parsing and handling for mapping between local and remote filenames.
>>>> . Bugfix. FTP would abort if a long file transfer took place, since the command channel had a timeout.
>>>> . Much improved progress line for file transfers, including ETA and delta between updates.
>>>>
>>>> FTPD:
>>>> . Bugfix. If a file transfer was followed by an immediate close of the connection, the file could be left in a locked state.
>>>> . Expanded time stamp information in directory listings to include seconds.
>>>>
>>>> TELNET:
>>>> . Bugfix in telnet options processing.
>>>>
>>>> TELNETD:
>>>> . Bugfix in telnet options processing.
>>>>
>>>> IFCONFIG:
>>>> . Added commands for setting default and maximum allowed tcp transmit and receive buffer sizes.
>>>>
>>>> RMD:
>>>> . Added information on task page about UDP connections.
>>>>
>>>> TRACERT:
>>>> . Added /NUMERIC switch
>>>>
>>>> As usual, the distribution is available from:
>>>> ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
>>>> ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
>>>> ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
>>>>
>>>> The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
>>>>
>>>> I believe the state of the code is now good enough that I expect there will be fewer updates to the basic networking drivers in the future. I plan to find some new protocols to work on next, and also improve some of the current clients and servers as the need arises.
>>>>
>>>> (On a different note, Madame.Update.UU.SE is now a CNAME for Mim.Update.UU.SE, making the naming of the machine consistent between DECnet and TCP/IP, in case someone wonders why the name have changed...)
>>>>
>>>>     Johnny
>>
>>
>> --
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol