[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV specifications are corrupted

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-26, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> The DECnet Phase IV specifications are corrupted, with missing lines
> of text. Given the nature of the corruption I suspect that when
> overprinted lines have been converted to plain text, this resulted
> in the lines being removed.
>
> The following examples are from:
>
> 	http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/wizard/decnet/edatlin10.txt
>
> In the section beginning at line 202, the manual titles are missing.

The gaps of some at least can be filled in from other scanned PDFs
(a pain...).

> While annoying, that's not really a significant problem. However, the
> significant issue is that lines of text are missing from the actual
> protocol descriptions themselves.
>
> For example, on line 1045 (the Input-buffer description for the TRANSMIT
> function), the first part of that paragraph is truncated.

I see what you mean.

> I've looked on Bitsavers, but the only full set of scans are from
> Phase III and earlier (based on the dates in the filenames).
>
> Does anyone know of any DECnet Phase IV specification which are not
> corrupted ?
>

I've managed to find some *Functional* rather than Architectural
specifications:

<http://decnet.ipv7.net/docs/dundas/>

These are PDF scanned images in PDF format.

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