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- From: bear@nuc.anu.edu.au (Bernhard Fabricius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Task to task decnet problem
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 03:11:08 GMT
- Organization: Nuclear Physics, ANU
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- In article <DAVIS.92Nov8154006@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>, davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:
-
- > I am trying to write an application which communicates across DECnet from a
- >system running VMS 4.7 to one run running VMS 5.4-1. This purpose of this
- >program is to copy files from a unix host via multinet's rcp to the VMS 4.7
- >system then copy them to the VMS 5.4-1 system which does not have multinet.
- >This part is easy enough. Here is the hard part.
- >
- > The VMS 5.4-1 system has a 3-1/2 in floppy which we access using the
- >PCX program to read and write MSDOS files. Once the copy has been made from
- >VSM 4.7 to the 5.4-1 system, I'd like to run PCX to move the files to the
- >floppy in an MSDOS format. However, I'd like to do all of this from the VMS
- >4.7 system.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
-
- A very simple (but not very elegant) way of doing this would involve letting
- the "4.7" nodes' menu system send a mail-message to a special PCX account on
- the "5.4-1" node. A low-prio background job on the "5.4-1" node then checks (at
- regular intervals) if there is any new mail for the PCX account and runs PCX
- with the requested file-name when there is. (You could put the requested
- file-name in the "Subject" field of the mail-message).
-
- You can use callable mail-routines to do the work. There is an example in the
- "Grey Wall" on the callable mail routines that you can use as a template - it
- does almost all of what you want (except, of course, running PCX...)
-
- This is quick and dirty, but very secure. (And your users need never know...)
-
- Cheers
-
- Bernhard
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