[HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

[Hans Vlems]

On VMS 
$ mc ncp sho known objects
Or
$ mc ncp sho obj fal char

> Op 3 jul. 2019 om 17:36 heeft Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
>  I've no idea what TOPS20 does, but ...
> 
>  On VMS the NETCONFIG script creates a default account for FAL called FAL$SERVER.  Anonymous access to FAL just logs in using this account and you can see whatever files are in the associated login directory, typically SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER].
> 
>  TOPS20 probably uses different names, but I imagine that the basic idea is similar...
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Thomas DeBellis
> Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 5:15 AM
> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Subject: [HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)
> 
> I have some software that I'd like to post, but don't recall how to 
> configure FAL to allow for an anonymous connection; to download from a 
> restricted directory.
> 
> I know how to do it for the FTP server (seeing as I wrote it), but ... 
> different code base.
> 
> I can only vaguely remember what we did for CCnet at Columbia University 
> in the 1980's, but I think it was kind of a hack.
>