Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Duffer's guide

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:26:38PM +0100, Nick Holder wrote:
> 
> OK - so I install a new XF86 file to /usr/X11R6/bin (from your pre-compiled
> downloads) to update it to decnet capable.
> 

On VMS you set the display as follows:

$ set display/create/node=<linuxnode>

and then run the commands as normal. I normally at this point do

$ create/terminal/detached

to get a DECterm up and running.

On Linux you will need to enable remote connections. being lazy (and on a
firewalled home network) I usually do

$ xhost +

which disables all security. You may want to be a little more specific and
enable specific nodes as in:

$ xhost +dnet:vmsbox

One tip. Linux doesn't have the same set of fonts that some of the standard VMS
utilities expect (eg 132 column text in a DECterm). If you have Alpha VMS box
you can copy the fonts from there to Linux and add them to the font path using
xset. I've never got the VAX ones to work though.

When Branden releases XFree86 4.2.0 for Debian I may get around to building a
DECnet-enabled Xserver for download. It would be really nice if the Xserver was
modular enough for protocols to be plugged in too - wonder if they've though of
that....

patrick