emacs and decnet

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From: Rohit Namjoshi {namjoshi
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:02

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>      I recently acquired a copy og gnu emacs 18.55 for vax/vms running
> dec-windows. I installed it and started to use it, everythning was
> ok, till I tried to read a file across decnet, emacs responded by
> saying that file or directory not found. 
>       Later I found out from someone on the net, that emacs doesnot
> support decnet. My quetion is if I have a network that is transparent to
> emacs, emacs shouldn't really worry about the details of how to retrieve
> the  file accross decnet, that should be handled separately by decnet.
> i ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE NETWORK WAS TRANSPARENT TO EMACS????

The problem is not emacs but the VMS VAX C runtime library implementations of
the access() and stat() functions which do not support DECNET (at least not in
VAX C version 3.1-051).  Ask DEC why its compiler does not support its network.

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