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In article <6595@shlump.nac.dec.com>, michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
>> I'm trying to get the decnet "task=" to work from an Ultrix node
>> to a VMS node.
>>
>> quayle %73 > dcp - muvms3::'task=decw_server'
>
>
> 	Sorry, the node::"0=taskname" convention is a RMS-32ism on VMS.
> 	You are going to have to write a small C program to do the
> 	equiv.  For example:
>
>	...
>	...
>	...
> 	You may want to look at "dcp -S" which may do enough of what you
> 	want that you won't have to write any code.
>
> /--------------------------------------------------------------\
> |Jeff Michaud    michaud@decwrl.dec.com  michaud@decvax.dec.com|
> |DECnet-ULTRIX   #include <standard/disclaimer.h>              |
> \--------------------------------------------------------------/
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I just did it three days ago, using dcp.  I seem to recall that there was
something annoying about wildcards and directory specs, but other than that it
worked fine.

One definite problem in the original poster's example is the
"task=verylongname".  There is a limitation in the DECnet Task protocol that
enforces task names no longer than 6 (I think) characters.  Try, for instance,
"TASK=REMOTE" instead.  If you had this problem, the error returned (as I
recall) is something about protocol error.

Other errors (that get all the way to NETSERVER, who does the actual work for
you) will be found in the NETSERVER.LOG files of the account that you are
accessing on the VMS side.

P

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