Any idea how I can configure Pathworks on Windows NT 4.0 to grant FAL access to remote VMS hosts? When I do NCP “DEFINE ACCESS DEFAULT READ”, OpenVMS remote hosts get back the entire c:\winnt\system32 directory for “DIR WINNTHOST::” – I want to force the default FAL to another directory. NCP “DEFINE ACCESS USER DEFAULT HOME C:\FAL” is not accepted as a command. Thank you.

Email Johnny (bqt at softjar dot se, iirc. Could also email me or the list proper)

I never really played with VAX/VMS outside of that class. Whats weird is that I seemed to have been exposed to many old mainframe systems over the years. In high school they were still teaching BASIC on a HP 3000… in 1996! They were taking advantage of the fact that they had one around running the school scheduling and student management system. There is a free eval copy of an emulator if I ever decided to brush off those freshman year programming assignments. 😛

There is a big group of DEC refugee’s on over at hecnet. I think there is a few dozen.

At this point, I’m just logging in and testing my compressed bridge… what I need is a game on VMS or something, doing ‘dir’ is getting boring quick.

Also who do I talk to about joining HECnet? Since I can run the bridge on Windows now, I setup a Terminal server, bound decnet to a loopback interface, and running HECnetNT, I can connect to my SIMH VAX, but it’s a lonely world.

Also: VMS would automatically change the MAC…so the address set on xq doesn’t really matter iirc.

I had some VAX access while in college, mostly to run assembly language programs. I don’t think they teach VAX ASM anymore since they finally retired that machine.

lol sounds right. I barely could logon and check email @ school, then our vax was killed. later on I helped virtualize a VAX, then it too was killed. Too bad, as they were massive beasts. I wanted to put NetBSD on the 8600, and use it for a NTP server… but a hurricane blew out the buildings triple phase for it, and that was the end of that.

I know it’s kind of interesting that you can just link ASM, Cobol, Fortran and C together, but to be honest, I can’t figure out how to even link a simple C program..

Ha! I just uploaded my build of hecnet for win32… I’ll need to test this some more, but I may just go ahead to announce, and see if it lands with a thud.