[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-01-03 16:02, Erik Olofsen wrote:
> On a virtual machine with lubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0, I have
> DECnet for Linux V.2.5.68s working, with dnprogs version 2.65.
> It is node RULLFL.
> 
> The daemons and utilities use decnet.conf with node information,
> so something useful would be to create it from mim::nodenames.dat.
> 
> On a VAX, TYPEing it works well, but on the Linux machine, dntype
> hangs after giving parts of the file; dndir mim:: works well.
> 
> Does anyone have dntype mim::nodenames.dat working properly (with
> perhaps different versions of the above)?

I can't help, but I can report that trying to read a file from a Linux 
machine on MIM also hangs after a while.
A big problem with the DECnet/Linux implementation is that the 
developers only ever tested against VMS, and nothing else.

I've known for ages that it does not play well with RSX. But I do not 
want to dig into the Linux implementation.

(The Linux DAP claims to be a VMS system, by the way, which is probably 
also not a good idea. Better if it had claimed to be some Unix derivative.)

   Johnny

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