[HECnet] PyDECnet File Transfer Support?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-22 22:09, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> 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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> Yes, I'm planning to do that at some point.  DAP is a rather large protocol and it assumes RMS, which is another kettle of fish.

It should be doable with a subset that is sortof not RMS. After all, 
Ultrix have DAP, for example. (As does Linux.)
RSX can be built with a DAP that don't use RMS, and you just get 
whatever functionality is offered by FCS, which is just a subset as well.

But I suspect it's still very non-trivial. :-)

   Johnny

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