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- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: mac network copy from 4ddn 4.0.4 fails - machine type "dec" ?
- Keywords: dec macintosh network copy 4ddn 4.0.4
- Message-ID: <1231@ki.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 15:17:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.220507.26055@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1230@ki.com> <1992Aug18.225342.21658@news.csd.sgi.com>
- Organization: ki Research, Inc
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- In article <1992Aug18.225342.21658@news.csd.sgi.com> niblett@lodi.csd.sgi.com (Ray Niblett) writes:
- |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.
- |
- |
- |4DDN does support VMS path names. I can do this on my system:
- |
- |lodi 223% dnls 'lodi::usr:[bin]'
- |
- |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 *
- |
- |I'd be curious to see the format of the VMS file names that the MAC uses.
- |
- |Ray Niblett
- |PSE, Silicon Graphics
- |niblett@sgi.com
-
- I'll forward your email on to Ray and see if he can find out. I was
- basing my response upon what the customer told me.
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