>>>> "Johnny" == Johnny Billquist
<bqt at Update.UU.SE> writes:
Johnny> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
Johnny> wrote:
> Ethernet is another good way; DECnet is available
on Linux.
Johnny> Unfortunately, the DECnet for Linux sucks so bad it isn't
Johnny> usable. Well, it is kindof usable if you want to talk with a
Johnny> VMS machine, but it don't work against RSX. I've tried
Johnny> it... :-(
So try it with RSTS...
Johnny> Appearantly the DECnet/Linux guys only have had VMS machines
Johnny> to test against, and I didn't manage to stir much interest
Johnny> when I reported how badly it failed with RSX. I only got
Johnny> responses like "well, that don't surprise us, since we've
Johnny> only tested against VMS".
Hard to blame someone for having it not work on a system they can't
test. It's open source -- you can fix it, and contribute your fixes.
That's what I did.
Part of the problem is at the DEC end -- undocumented hacks in DAP
(VMS is particularly bad there) and the totally undocumented pre-CTERM
"set host" protocols.
paul