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

[Johnny Billquist]

Better than nothing, but definitely not exhaustive. I know... But that's 
the only thing I have apart from sources.

   Johnny

On 2021-12-16 23:03, Paul Koning wrote:
> Thanks.  That gives parameter code points.  It doesn't seem to give request function codes, nor how the message is encoded.  NICE standard formatting seems plausible but the standard doesn't require that.
> 
> 	paul
> 
>> On Dec 16, 2021, at 5:07 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> 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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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol