[HECnet] RSTS/E started emitting "?EVTLOG (BLDNIC) -- %Integer error" messages

[Thomas DeBellis]

Hmmm...  That's very close to the Tops-20 format of SET NODE a.b NAME 
C::, so Johnny would write that in FIX.T20 as

set node 1.1 name MAGICA
set node 1.2 name ERNIE
set node 1.3 name FNATTE

It would be trivial for me to create an invisible synonym for SET named 
"DEFINE" which perhaps means that I might be able to handle the VMS 
file, assuming all only contains are DEFINE commands.  BUT...  The 
standard DEC SETNOD would choke on such a file for two reasons:

 1. It doesn't know about the "DEFINE" verb.
 2. It signals end of file by going into an endless loop.  The file HAS
    to be terminated with a RETURN statement.

The rewrite gracefully handles end of file by closing the it and going 
to command level; basically doing the same thing that RETURN would do.  
It occurs to me that some sort of a standardized format would have been 
A Good Idea, but I don't know how close they got to that.

I don't see anything in there for Tops-10.  What does it do?

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On 11/11/21 9:05 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> RSTS wants a DCL command file that looks like this:
>
> $ ncp
> def node 1.1 name MAGICA
> def node 1.2 name ERNIE
> def node 1.3 name FNATTE
> ...
>
> paul
>
>> On Nov 11, 2021, at 3:53 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>
>> If a specific format is needed for RSTS/E nodes, I can create that 
>> format file whenever the nodename database is updated. Just let me 
>> know what the format should be.
>>
>> At the moment, the following files are created:
>>
>> FIX.T20 (for TOPS-20)
>> FIX.COM <http://fix.com/>(for VMS)
>> HECNET.PY (for PyDECnet)
>> FIX.CMD (for RSX)
>>
>> All can be found at MIM::HECNET:
>>
>>  Johnny
>>
>> On 2021-11-11 02:20, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>> Maybe helpful to someone, the latest node database can now be synced 
>>> up on RSTS/E using RST101::DEFNOD.CMD
>>> RST101 is at 31.28
>>> best,
>>> /s.
>>> On 11/10/21 7:42 PM, Tony Nicholson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 11:31, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Copied from GALAH, the copy at DINGO doesn't have read permission.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fixed permissions - I thought I had protected them against 
>>>> writing/not reading. Blame finger memory not engaging with my brain.
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
>>> --
>>
>> --
>> 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
>
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