[HECnet] New system online

[Johnny Billquist]

There is no one good place for all of this.

Someone could certainly create a site if they wanted to. The problem is 
keeping it up to date. Information goes stale, and some machines come 
and go.

I don't have any good solution except people putting some manual work 
in. Automated systems are also difficult.

Apart from that, people occasionally announce their services on this 
list. However, sometimes its more a wish to provide a service than 
actually having a service that people are looking for.

All this said, MIM, as people probably know, are where I keep the HECnet 
nodename database. It's actually done in Datatrieve, and the nodename 
database in DECnet on MIM is generated from this Datatrieve source. The 
web service also use Datatrieve as the backend.

In addition to the nodename database, MIM also hosts the BQTCP package 
for RSX, along with KERMIT-11 for RSX, NEMA, and as much RSX 
documentation as I have managed to lay my hands on (well, there are 
still a few manuals that I have not made available, but I'm working on 
that). And of course, MIM is also available to log into for random 
people, either through the guest account, or by requesting an account of 
their own.

I have pretty much all DECUS tapes on MIM, and should try to make it 
more easily accessible some day, and I'm starting to consider if I 
should make the RSX layered software tapes that I have available as 
well, but I still feel a bit uncomfortable on that one.

	Johnny

On 2016-07-07 21:32, Lex van Roon wrote:
> I was wondering about this myself as well, how do you actually find
> interesting things on HECnet without actively probing anything? The
> INFO.TXT does seem to be a good thing for this, and by looking at it, I
> need to start getting things into order :)
>
> gr, Lex
>
> On 07/07/2016 09:24, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> I could certainly add various bits of information, but it might become a bit
>> unwieldy to manage that information locally.
>>
>> In the past there was the suggestion that people have an INFO.TXT in the
>> default account for DECnet. Any such file will be displayed by another page
>> I have on MIM.
>>
>> See for example http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet?node=mim
>>
>> There have also been suggestions for standardizing the format of that file.
>> I don't think my example might be following any such standards, and I'm not
>> sure how important/useful that could be.
>>
>> But I think it's a better system for giving random information about nodes
>> than the nodename database, as there can be all kind of odd information you
>> can put there.
>>
>> 	Johnny
>>
>> On 2016-07-07 02:29, Mark Abene wrote:
>>> Speaking of which, I was wondering if maybe Johnny thinks it would be
>>> a good idea to add a column to the web-based node list which shows
>>> whether or not the particular system has a guest account, or offers
>>> user accounts? The question of which nodes are "open" comes up on the
>>> list now and again, and I don't remember there being any authoritative
>>> list.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Lex van Roon <r3boot at r3blog.nl> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> After some effort, I got an PDP-11/93 (simh) online running RSX-11M+ 4.6
>>>> bl 87. It is reachable as ROJIN (1.542) and I've configured a guest
>>>> account on this box if anyone is interested in nosing around on this
>>>> sytem. Do note, I just have about 2 weeks of experience with rsx, so be
>>>> gentle with me :)
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Lex van Roon
>>>>
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>> --
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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>


-- 
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