[Info-vax] Network mailbox

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <j8ejh2$js5$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Snowshoe <no at spam.please> writes:
>On 10/28/2011 11:21 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> Why are you using RMS to read and write the mailbox?  The mailbox driver
>> has special function modifiers (ie. IO$M_NOW) that can be used with $QIO
>> IO$_READVBLK and IO$_WRITEVBLK when the target device is a mailbox.  The
>> $QIO IO$_READVBLK would normally wait and only complete when there's been
>> a message deposited into the mailbox.  This you apparently have correct.
>>
>> I'd lose the $PUT and use IO$_WRITEVBLK|IO$M_NOW.  I think you can still
>> use the $OPEN but you'll probably want to specify UFO and then, there is
>> no need for the $CONNECT.  Just issues $QIO IO$_WRITEVBLK|IO$M_NOW to the
>> channel returned in the FAB's STV.
>>
>
>I would be more than glad to do that -- if there was a way to do so over 
>the network.
>
>Right now there are two processes on one system (an old VAX) that 
>communicate with each other via Mailboxes. My task is to move one 
>process to a new system and communicate with the second process's 
>mailboxes over the network (DECnet).  I am creating an additional 
>process that transfers data from clones of the mailboxes on the new 
>system over the network to the old system.

D'oh.  There it is... a node spec in the FNM.  

So, if you've opened a DECnet connection to a remote mailbox, why are
you not using $PUTs and $GETs on the local side?  You're using DECnet
so you should see record I/O.

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