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Subject: Re: Upcoming time boundary events
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 13:47:35 -0400
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On 5/31/2025 6:08 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote on 30/05/2025 :
>> On 5/30/2025 3:46 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>>> bill explained :
>>>> Can you believe people are still using DECNET?  :-)
>>>
>>> Well, is anyone else proposing a suitable replacement for FAL and
>>> transparent task to task communication ?
>>
>> Usage/API compatible? No.
>>
>> High level functionality? Yes.
>> Among other options: FAL->FTP 
> 
> How about opening a file remotely without having to copy it over first ?

The DECnet integration in RMS is unique.

But from a practical perspective then either copy the file or put the
file on a shared disk.

>> and task to task->INETD.
> 
> Can be done from shell/scripting, without programming ?

DCL does not speak TCP/IP. And probably never will.

But then script it in Python or Groovy or Perl or something
else that does speak TCP/IP.

Arne