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- From: niblett@lodi.csd.sgi.com (Ray Niblett)
- Subject: Re: mac network copy from 4ddn 4.0.4 fails - machine type "dec" ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.225342.21658@news.csd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: dec macintosh network copy 4ddn 4.0.4
- Sender: news@news.csd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul30.210725.18014@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug5.205951.14880@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug11.220507.26055@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1230@ki.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:53:42 GMT
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- In article <1230@ki.com>, dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug11.220507.26055@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin) writes:
- |> |raymond@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz ( Raymond W L Martin) writes:
- |> |
- |> |>Has anyone noticed that 4ddn on irix 4.0.4 advertises itself as a system type
- |> |>DEC. When using "network copy" from a macintosh a users reports that he
- |> |>can list and select files on our 4d/240D but the copy fails.
- |> |
- |> |THIS IS NOT CAUSED BY kinet lat v4.3 R11 beta as I previously thought.
- |> |
- |> |OK for the sake of honesty I must now eat crow. We have removed kinet lat R11
- |> |v4.3 form our 4d/240 and the problem still stands. However we are leaving it
- |> |off because it corrupted our /etc/wtmp file. So the only factor to change was
- |> |IRIX 4.0.1 to IRIX 4.0.4. We hope the upgrade to IRIX 4.0.5 will fix it.
- |> |
- |> | Ray Martin
- |> | Computer Centre
- |> | University of Auckland
- |>
- |>
- |> As a further followup to this posting, Ray Martin, Jim Greenslade and I have
- |> determined what the real cause of his problem is. The MAC NetCopy software
- |> [DECnet sold by DEC] is incorrectly identifying the Irix system as a VMS
- |> system. Because of this, it creates VMS style pathnames for it's file
- |> requests. The SGI 4DDN product however can't handle VMS pathnames. It
- |> appears that something in 4DDN changed in the upgrade to 4.0.4. If Ray had
- |> been using the kiNET DECnet product [openDNA] on the Irix system, he would
- |> not have had this problem. openDNA supports VMS pathname syntax in addition
- |> to standard Unix pathname syntax and would have worked just fine with the
- |> MAC NetCopy software.
- |>
- |> --
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- 4DDN does support VMS path names. I can do this on my system:
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- lodi 223% dnls 'lodi::usr:[bin]'
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- Directory LODI::/usr/bin/
-
- CC ct fsplit ndx regcmp under
- X11 ctags fx neqn rpcgen uniq
- apropos ctrace getopt newform rup units
- ar cu grap news rusers unpack
- as cut groups nl sar uucp
- asa cxref hyphen nm sdiff uulog
- at dbx id nroff size uuname
- awk dc infocmp oawk soelim uupick
- .
- .
- .
- Or from a vax: COPY LODI::USR:[TMP]FILE.DAT *
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- I'd be curious to see the format of the VMS file names that the MAC uses.
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- --
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- Ray Niblett
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- PSE, Silicon Graphics
- niblett@sgi.com
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