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

[Thomas DeBellis]

Yes, I understand that.

Clearly the Tops-20 implementation is limited in that nothing the NCP 
can do will write the permanent node store.  Only SETNODE can do that.  
It's kind of schizophrenic, really.

On 11/11/21 5:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2021-11-11 22:44, Paul Koning wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Thomas DeBellis 
>>> <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So that's the difference between SET and DEFINE?  Gee, that's 
>>> deluxe!  What a great idea!
>>
>> It's part of the DECnet management specification, but the 
>> implementations vary.  There is a "permanent" and "volatile" 
>> database; the volatile one lasts only for a single DECnet run. DEFINE 
>> and PURGE operate on the permanent database, SET and CLEAR on the 
>> volatile.
>
> And then you have SHOW/LIST.
>
>> In RSTS, both are manipuated by NCP.  In some other DECnet 
>> implementations, the permanent database operations are in a different 
>> program but use the standard syntax; I think RSX does it that way.
>
> Yes, RSX have a different program to manipulate the permanent db. 
> Commands are still the same as mentioned above.
>
> And just to make one more thing clear to Thomas - this is about more 
> than just defining node names. All kind of DECnet configuration stuff 
> goes through here.
>
>   Johnny
>
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