How to transfer data FAST?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Johnny" == Johnny Billquist <bqt at Update.UU.SE> writes:

 Johnny> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
 Johnny> wrote:

 >> Ethernet is another good way; DECnet is available on Linux.

 Johnny> Unfortunately, the DECnet for Linux sucks so bad it isn't
 Johnny> usable. Well, it is kindof usable if you want to talk with a
 Johnny> VMS machine, but it don't work against RSX. I've tried
 Johnny> it... :-(

So try it with RSTS...

 Johnny> Appearantly the DECnet/Linux guys only have had VMS machines
 Johnny> to test against, and I didn't manage to stir much interest
 Johnny> when I reported how badly it failed with RSX. I only got
 Johnny> responses like "well, that don't surprise us, since we've
 Johnny> only tested against VMS".

Hard to blame someone for having it not work on a system they can't
test.  It's open source -- you can fix it, and contribute your fixes.
That's what I did.

Part of the problem is at the DEC end -- undocumented hacks in DAP
(VMS is particularly bad there) and the totally undocumented pre-CTERM
"set host" protocols.

     paul