[HECnet] DECnet/m+

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-22 23:09, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
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>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 4:13 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> On 2021-12-22 22:06, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2021-12-22 20:42, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>> More...
>>>>> I unpacked that decnet46 tape image with BRU, and did netgen with that.  I get an endnode, I missed the fact it didn't ask me if I wanted something else.  So how would I get a router instead?
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like you are faced with an endnode kit. Then you don't have a choice.
>>>> Download the full DECnet kit from MIM, and make a new installation with that. Now that you've come this far, that is fairly easy to do, since the tape image exists at MIM::
>>> Where is that kit?
>>
>> MIM::KITS:
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> Found it.  The readme file says it's a "virtual tape file that can only be used under RSX" -- how do I use it?

Copy the file over to your RSX system. Then you use the RSX virtual 
device system.

VCP CON <file>/TAP

will give you a device name back, and then you mount and play around as 
usual.

VCP DISCONNECT dev:

will then drop it again.

However, be aware that DECnet file transfers might mangle some file 
attributes, in case you will need to add /ATT:TU81 or whatever to tell 
VCP that this thing should have the attributes of that device type.
Add /SAVE to restore this back to the file attributes.

   Johnny

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