[HECnet] PyDECnet File Transfer Support?

[Paul Koning]

> On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
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> Are there any thoughts about adding file transfer capabilities to PyDECnet at some point in the future? If a pyDECnet node could implement a FAL server to share a directory and/or offer a way to copy files to/from other nodes over DECnet, that would be really cool. I think it could make a very nice option for moving files between DECnet nodes and modern systems without needing to wrestle with Linux DECnet drivers or install TCP/IP on the DECnet nodes. I don't know how hard it would be to implement, or if there's any way I could contribute.
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> I'm imagining a silly future in which there is a native Python implementation of an entire RSX-11 or VMS system. :)

I suppose one could do a SIMH in Python, but I hate to imagine the size, or slowness, of such a beast.  I did once do a CPU emulation in Python, for a fairly simple CPU and only the CPU, that wasn't too hard.

	paul