Re: Upcoming time boundary events

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 ?

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Usage/API compatible? No.
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High level functionality? Yes.
Among other options: FAL->FTP

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How about opening a file remotely without having to copy it over first
?
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and task to task->INETD.

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Can be done from shell/scripting, without programming ?
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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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