[HECnet] Configuring py-decnet --> patches

[Dave McGuire]

On 8/26/20 4:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Let me put it this way. If any tool causes you any problems, first check 
> if there is something newer on MIM, and if so - grab and test that.
> If not, let me know, and I can probably fix it.

   I'm sure I speak for all of us here when I say THANK YOU for this.

> And while I'm on it. At the moment there is a long standing bug in NICE 
> on RSX, which have been annoying me slightly for a long time, but which 
> is now starting to become serious enough that I need to look deeper into 
> it. If you do a "NCP TELL MIM SHOW KNOWN NODES" the list is incomplete. 
> If you look carefully, some nodes are missing, which will be there, if 
> you explicitly ask for them.
> 
> This becomes a larger problem because if someone on a VMS system does an 
> "NCP COPY KNOWN NODES FROM MIM ..." they will not be getting the full 
> list either. And the same goes for RSX users using NNC to copy the known 
> nodes from MIM.

   Ah-HA!!  I have seen exactly this.  I thought I was losing my mind.

> A workaround for the time being is that you can grab MIM::HECNET:FIX.COM 
> or FIX.CMD (or FIX.T20) to just get a script to apply to get the proper 
> definitions into your machine. I can create more files with other 
> details/syntax/fluff as needed as well, if people just let me know.
> 
> (For RSX, feed FIX.CMD into CFE.)

   I have made a note of this.  I may still be losing my mind, but my 
observation above just wasn't a real symptom. ;)

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA