[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[hb]

On 10/07/2016 08:11 AM, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Exactly.  An IP based FAL based on sftp or similar, where network-unaware
> programs can access remote files via RMS just like you could do something
> like $ RUN NODE::DISK:[DIR]PROGRAM.EXE on any VMS system with DECnet. This
> time, securely.

Which works for VAX and Alpha images but not for I64, aka ELF, images -
not supported:

$ run 0::hello
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image 0::hello
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file 0::DISK$LOG:[NET]hello.EXE;1
-SYSTEM-E-INVFILFOROP, invalid file specification for operation
$

As far as I know, this feature wasn't officially supported, anyway.

And before you try it, running an ELF image from a tape device doesn't
work either.