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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-09-18 kl. 17:14, skrev Scott Dorsey:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think we have to accept that the rest of the world selected
>> TCPIP for networking.
>
> And, that being the case, we need to have the same features that people
> have liked with DECNET (such as the remote save sets) available with IP.
>

Who are "we"? The (remaining) VMS user community? Do we think that we
can decide what should be used on networks or the internet in general?

My guess is that we simply have to learn to live without remote save sets.

The best service we can do for VMS is to "play well" with whatever is
expected on todays networks. Right, there is DECnet-over-IP, but it
seems as most user/sites simply decided to use TCPIP tools directly.

> In the Unix world, I use the SFTP filesystem for a lot of things that I
> would have done more easily with DECNET transfers in the VMS world.  In
> the Windows world they have SMB fileshares integrated in much the way
> DECNET is integrated into VMS.

I would guess there are a few more Windows nodes out there, then there
are VMS nodes. I guess volume does have *some* impact here.


> --scott
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