Re: Upcoming time boundary events

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?  :-)

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Well, is anyone else proposing a suitable replacement for FAL and
transparent task to task communication ?

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Usage/API compatible? No.
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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