[HECnet] DAP

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-12-11 00:39, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2019-12-11 00:34, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> What is the difference in practice between functions 7 (SUBMIT) and 8 
>> (EXECUTE)?  In both cases, Tops-20 submits the file as a Batch job to 
>> Galaxy, this being the only way to construct the proper user context.
> 
> In RSX, SUBMIT would be something placed in a batch queue, but EXECUTE 
> would be something that was run directly, if I remember right. (I could 
> be confused.) You do not need a user context in the same sense under RSX 
> in order to run programs. Such program would be run under the console 
> terminal.

To quote the online help:

.nft /id
NFT -- Version V9.0
Local NFARs V8   DAP V7.1 Buffer size=  2064. OS=RSX-11M+  FS=FCS-11 
DC=Yes
.nft /he

  NFT is the Network File Transfer utility.  It can perform file
  transfers and file operations over the network.

  Information is available for the following operations:
      APPEND (/AP) .............. File Append commands
      COPY ...................... File Transfer commands
      DELETE (/DE) .............. File Deletion commands
      DEFAULTS (/DF) ............ Set/Examine Defaults commands
      DIRECTORY (/AT,/BR,/LI,/FU) Directory list commands
      EXECUTE (/EX) ............. File Execution commands
      IDENTIFY (/ID) ............ Identify commands
      PROTECTION (/PR)........... File Protection commands
      RENAME (/RE) .............. File Rename command
      SPOOL (/SP) ............... File Spooling commands
      SUBMIT (/SB) .............. File Submission commands
  And the following subjects:
      DATA CHECKING (/DC) ....... Remote file transfer data checking
      FILESPECS ................. File Specification syntax
      NODE NAMES ................ Node and Access control syntax
      MODES (/AS,/AX,/BK,/IM,/RC) File transfer Mode switches
      QUOTES .................... Quoting foreign filespecs
      SWITCHES .................. NFT switch summary
      VERSION NUMBERS ........... Version number processing

.nft help ex
   To execute a file, or a several files which are located on a remote
   node, the command format is:
     NFT>filespec1[,filespec2,...,filespecN]/EX

   Valid qualifiers are:
         /LO

.nft help sb
   To submit a file, or several files to a remote system, the command
   format is:
         NFT>[outfilespec]=infilespec1[,...,infilespecn]/SB

   Valid qualifiers are:
         /AS, /AX, /BK, /DC, /IM, /NV, /RC, /LO



   Johnny



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