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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming time boundary events
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 12:46:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-31, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck@invalid.skynet.be> 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 
> ?
>
>>and task to task->INETD.
>
> Can be done from shell/scripting, without programming ?
>

Bash can do it, at least on Unix. You can directly open a connection to
a TCP or UDP socket from within your script and treat it as just another
file descriptor to read from/write to.

I don't know if bash on VMS can do this. For details see:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html

Simon.

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