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

[David Froble]

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>> I am following this thread with interest because I put
>> a bunch of effort getting DECnet V/DECnet Plus to build
>> at VSI, what we got from HP was a bit of a mess.  Since
>> then I wondered, how many customers actually use DECnet V
>> (or DECnet IV), and for what.
> 
> It's all gone here, and at all of our customers.
> 
>> Of course the VMS builtin where you could access any
>> file on your DECnet with almost any software just by
>> using the file spec node::dev:[dir.sub]file.ext is
>> really great, and is missed on TCP/IP.
> 
> Absolutely.   VMS clearly needs some way of doing that
> transparently and with file format information preserved.
> It doesn't need DECNET underneath to do it though.
> --scott

I'm basically lazy ....

I've thought of implementing a FAL using sockets ....

Did I mention, I'm lazy?  It would be a lot of work, and the first thing that 
would happen is criticism of the decisions I'd have made.  So, why bother?  At 
least as long as DECnet is available ....