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quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick J. Quairoli) writes:
>
> we have recently tried to install DV/X and the TCP/IP network manager
> on an IBM model 90.  DV/X installed fine, but it kept claiming that
> PCTCP did not have the interface, or the host names setup.  DV/X
> suggested to recheck the IPCUST.SYS and the IFCUST.SYS; the problem is
> that FTPs new version 2.10 does not require you to load or even use
> these two files, the new version looks at a variable and a file called
> PCTCP.INI   i can 't get DV/X to even install any part of the network
> manager, as soon as it sees something missing it bombs and doesn't
> give you the  oportunity to input the information that you need, and
> it is not very specific either.
> 
> note, i've tried using the .SYS files and i still get the same error,
> and the information on what it is missing is lame.

The information it asks for is exactly what it needs.  Currently, DV/X
does not support the new init scheme in PCTCP 2.1x.  FTP has included
a backwards compatibility feature in 2.1x, until 3rd party developers
can support the new scheme.  You have to configure PCTCP to use
ifcust.sys and ipcust.sys, not pctcp.ini, to initialize itself.  Set
Useoldinitscheme=Yes in pctcp.ini, and I bet your network fails as
soon as you try to load it.  If this happens, then you haven't
configured ipcust.sys and ifcust.sys with any information about your
host.

Actually, you can have PCTCP use the new init scheme, but you still
need to load ifcust.sys and ipcust.sys /after/ configuring them with
the information for your host (what Setup asked for in the Big Red
Box).  DV/X still uses ipcust.sys and ifcust.sys to get this
information.  Very shortly, it won't anymore.  But for now, you need
to use ipconfig and ifconfig to load your host information in their
.sys files.

See chapter 46 of your PCTCP manual for more info about how to
configure the .sys files.



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