[HECnet] Wanted: details on "system specific" NICE messages

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Dec 16 02:07:44 PST 2021


Paul - http://mim.update.uu.se/manuals/network/decnet2.pdf appendix F 
will have at least a little bit of stuff for you.

   Johnny

On 2021-12-16 02:15, Paul Koning wrote:
> I'm thinking it would be nice (in the tools with PyDECnet) to be able to do not just standard NICE requests like any other NCP, but also system-specific ones.
> 
> I can find out what the RSTS ones look like, but I don't know about other systems.  I'm pretty sure that both VMS and RSX have system-specific requests, SHOW and/or SET, for things like network objects or logical links and perhaps other stuff.  Is there documentation that describes these?  Does anyone have information handy?
> 
> A few days ago VMS listings (from fiche) appeared in Bitsavers, and I suppose I can try to read NCP listings that are in there.  Chances are they are in BLISS which I don't know at all...
> 
> 	paul
> 

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