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

[Dirk Munk]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

YOU ALREADY HAVE THOSE FEATURES !!!!! IT IS CALLED DECNET OVER IP !!!!!

Why on earth would any one try to invent something that is already 
there, that is plain silly. No other OS could use those features.

>
> 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.
> --scott
>