usenet@mcdchg.UUCP (03/13/87)
I want to connect a Unix-machine to our DECNET. Does anyone know about programs emulating DECNET in Unix? It would be a very nice way of solving my problem. Lars Wirfelt UUCP: ...!mcvax!enea!volvo!wirfelt Volvo Data AB 2331 DLI S-405 08 Gothenburg, Sweden
usenet@mcdchg.UUCP (03/27/87)
Some people are sending replies to me, the moderator, that they apparently intend for the original author of articles. This means that their software is using the "Path:" header line to reply, instead of using the "From:" header line. Anything I get along those lines in the future, I'll assume to be a submission to the newsgroup and either post or reject it as appropriate. Here's a summary of the responses I've received to the DECNET query. Something along these lines should be done by the original author of a query and then posted back to the group. Thanks. Ron. ---------- From: robert@acad.UUCP (Robert Wenig ext 609) Organization: Autodesk, Sausalito, CA Sun has ported Decnet to their machines, I'm quite happy with it. I don't know about other Unix boxes. ---------- From: ittfb@dcatla.UUCP (Thomas F. Blakely) Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA If you've got a SUN, or access to one, they have Sunlink DNA to do DecNet access. It does dnalogin, dnacp and dnals, which all do what you would expect based on the names. It also lets you "set host" on your vax to a SUN. ---------- From: sanand@radha.UUCP (Sanand Patel) Organization: Canstar Communications Well, if you buy DEC UNIX (Ultrix), you can true DECNET protocols right on the UNIX machine. I think they also provide some gateway software as well. ---------- From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI DECNET, and in the Dec's newtork for VMS? If so, you can run Eunice on the the VMS vax and run TCP/IP to/from that! Much nicer from the unix box's point of view, and all you really need is (if you don't have it) is Eunice. (Oh, yes...this assumes you have a *REAL* (i.e. BSD type) Unix-machine!) ---------- -- Ron Heiby usenet@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix
zap@ttds.UUCP (Svante Lindahl) (04/13/87)
I found the following in my archive, which might be of interest to the list.
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>From: HAL%USU.BITNET@wiscvm.arpa
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: reply to 4.3BSD or Ultrix
Subject: 4.3BSD or Ultrix?
A company called Technology Concepts Inc. markets a
generic DECnet that reportedly runs on 4.xBSD, called
CommUnity. Their literature claims it is compatible
with DECnet Phase IV, UNIX as an operating system.
their address is:
Technology Concepts Inc.
40 Tall Pine Drive
Sudbury, Mass 01776
(617)443-7311
We are not using the product ourselves because we chose
Ultrix. We migrated from Eunice on VMS. I suspect that
#2 above might or might not be correct depending on what
must be converted. We converted Writers Workbench from
Eunice(4.1bsd?!) to Ultrix with no problems, but we have
yet to get S working 100%. DECnet Ultrix works real well.
File copies, remote rm's ls's and cat's are easy both ways.
Task to task communications with VMS is a piece of cake.
All our printing and tape work is done over the network
to VMS machines.
hal