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- From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau)
- Subject: Re: DecNET and Linux?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.154328.20741@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan22.221127.27589@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:51:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.221127.27589@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- keh5@ellis.uchicago.edu (keith eric hellman) writes...
- >I would like to connect my linux box to an old DecNET system - can anyone
- >give me suggestions/info/good-humored chuckles re my naive outlook on
- >such things?
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- Assuming your DECnet (not DecNET [picky, picky]) system is a VAX, it
- might be easier to install TCP/IP on it than to get a DECnet
- implementation working on linux. Even if you're running on a PDP, I
- think there are existing TCP/IP packages for it's operating systems.
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- tom_p
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