[HECnet] Multinet 5.5 issues on VMS 7.3 (VAX) under SIMH

[Supratim Sanyal]

I have a VMS 4.7 instance with CMU-TEK TCP/IP on it - telnet, smtp etc work fine but I am missing a http server. Is there a http server in source or binary form that would run in this environment?


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Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
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> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:03 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/28/19 6:40 PM, Keith Halewood wrote:
>> Multinet’s network interface is a bit of a mish-mash for my mind. I have
>> a recollection of using CMUTEK TCP/IP under VAX/VMS several ‘centuries’
>> ago and that was a pure $QIO(W)-based interface, wonderfully
>> straightforward. Multinet offers a $QIO interface… and then ruins it by
>> insisting on socket-like data structures for establishing connections –
>> yuck.
> 
>  I've noticed this as well.  While I love that we have Multinet, I do
> have pretty fond memories of CMU-TEK IP and its more "VMS-like" API.  I
> ran CMU-TEK at a US Gov't-related facility under VMS 5.1 and 5.5 when I
> was a VMS admin a very long time ago.  It worked great and the API was good.
> 
>  Multinet is ok, but the whole thing just appears to be a port of a BSD
> UNIX network stack and all of the relevant applications to VMS.  I've
> not looked under the hood (I install Multinet on the machines at the
> museum to ssh and ftp around, not to dig into its internals) but it sure
> looks that way.  While I'm fine with that approach in general, and I'm a
> dyed-in-the-wool UNIX guy, it really doesn't feel very "VMSy" to me.
> 
>            -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
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