[HECnet] Configuring py-decnet.

[Johnny Billquist]

And to complement the picture a little more. On RSX, you need a program 
called RRS, which is provided among the "unsupported utilities" in the 
DECnet distribution.

.rrs elvira
MIM::RRS -- Connection established to node ELVIRA::

RSTS V10.1-L 26-Aug-20 14:41
User: 99,99
PASSWORD:

LAST INTERACTIVE LOGIN ON 26-AUG-20, 02:36    AT KB21:


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   Johnny

On 2020-08-26 02:19, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I found out, too.
> 
> On Tops-20, the CTERM client is called CTERM-SERVER (don't ask) whereas 
> the NRT client is called SETHOST.  SETHOST is /quite/ old and I had been 
> hacking it for efficiency and fixing a few bugs.
> 
> It now has an alternate debugging entry to try to force Tops-20 NRT 
> (which will also work on Tops-10) and ignore the remote node type until 
> it can't proceed any further.  Here are the results from my own tests; 
> they indicate that a CTERM (server) object does not exist on ELVIRA.  
> I'm not sure, but I had thought that CTERM had not been done on RSTS/E.
> 
> !cterm-sERVER.EXE.2 elvira
> 
> [Attempting a connection,
> _CTERM Connect failed - Destination process does not exist_
> !g ds:sethost
> !ree
> Escape character(^Y):
> Host name: ELVIRA::
> [Connecting to remote host: ELVIRA]
> _?RSTS/E type systems do not support Tops-20 NRT communications._
> 
> 
> On 8/25/20 8:09 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Some systems, like VMS, will use CTERM by default, and there isn't a CTERM listener on RSTS.  So you have to tell it to use the "old protocol", whatever that involves on your OS.
>>
>> 	paul
>>
>>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 7:24 PM,jy at xtra.co.nz  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Thord,
>>>
>>> Congratulations, I can see you're up at:
>>>
>>> http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map/data
>>>
>>> I just tried a set host elvira and set hsot 59.53 but I'm getting "network object unknown at remote node".
>>>
>>> Cheers, John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 26 August 2020 at 11:14 Thord Nilson<thordn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>> Update!
>>>> Basic connections are now working,  so for a limited time you can:
>>>> set host elvira::
>>>> login as 99,99 psw: testing
>>>> Nothing much to see though.
>>>> Thanks to all for your help!
>>>>
>>>> /Thord.

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