Re: Transparent task to task

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 22:20:00 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 6/3/2025 8:26 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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As pointed out already, it’s not the fault of the TYPE command, it’s
the fault of the underlying comms architecture that allows for this
behaviour. It works with any other command that can open an arbitrary
user-specified file through the same API layer (i.e. RMS).

 
Yes.

Furthermore, this is not actually a common thing. It is a unique feature
of VMS that the standard filespec syntax allows for a DECnet node name
plus optional accompanying username and password, so any code that
accesses files through RMS (and who doesn’t?) automatically gets network-
transparent access to remote data this way.

There are a lot of tools in the *nix world that will accept URLs instead
of filename specs, but they have to use some additional layer on top of
stdio in order to get this capability.