[Info-vax] DECnet-plus question

[Neil Rieck]

On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 7:36:32 AM UTC-4, Volker Halle wrote:
> Neil,
> 
> A1) from a DCL user perspective, DECnet-Plus is the same as DECnet IV.
> Network Management is different though. Need to use NCL instead of NCP. All configuration Information is stored in SYS$MANAGER:*.NCL files, so you might be able to figure out, what Needs to be changed by looking at those files.
> 
> A2) Network Management can be done with NCL and @NET$CONFIG or manually editing the *.NCL files. Never used NET$MGMT.EXE
> 
> Volker.

The big problem here is the syntax. With DECnet-IV you can use NCP to issue commands like "SHOW KNOWN NODES", "SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS", "SHOW KNOWN LINES" but none of these commands work with NCL. Heck, it would be nice just to be able to know the NCL equivalent of "SET HOST"

That was why I was hoping someone had published a DECnet "cheat sheet" or "Rosetta Stone" :-)

Neil