[HECnet] Windows 10 DECnet?

[Dave Wade]

Jason,

I tried it on Windows/10 64 bit. It fails to find network adaptors to use.

Dave

 

From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Jason Brady
Sent: 15 July 2019 20:51
To: hecnet at update.uu.se
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Windows 10 DECnet?

 

Hi All,

 

Tried to install Pathworks 32 7.4 on both Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 8.1 PCs. (No Windows 10 machine to test with.)

 

CD installer doesn't function but navigated to the window2k(sp?) folder and ran setup. Process completed after a few complaints about unrecognized drivers. Used default location C:\PW32.

 

Seemed to work...but no mention of Pathworks on any of the Control Panel dialogs. 

 

Ran NCP (located in the C:\PW32 folder) in a DOS window. Returns error "Failed to find NCP parse table file ncptab.bin" even though the file exists in the same folder as ncp. 

 

aslpass (Password Assistant) and nftw32 (DECnet File Transfer) programs run, but nothing to connect to.

 

Any ideas, or is the software too old and incompatible with newer Windows releases?

 

On the good side, the excellent PowerTerm 525 emulator installs and runs perfectly. Far superior to putty. (I use a newer, paid version of PowerTerm Pro every day for my OpenVMS systems.)

 

Thank you,

Jason

 

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:53 AM Johnny Eriksson <bygg at cafax.se <mailto:bygg at cafax.se> > wrote:

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> > wrote:

> My experience with latd in Linux is that it sucks. It sortof works if 
> you are lucky, but there are problems in it, which makes it undesirable 
> to use with RSX at least.

My experience is that for connecting to a Tops-[12]0 system it works,
even if the thing, as you say, sucks in several ways.  Considering
myself lucky then.

--Johnny (the other one)

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