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    From Johnny Billquist@bqt@softjar.se to alt.sys.pdp11 on Mon Jan 24 06:12:16 2022
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    Ok, it's highly unlikely that anyone cares, but just in case I am
    posting this anyway.

    When using RSX-11M-Plus, if you write a program that uses the
    Datatrieve-11 callable interface over DECnet, your program cannot use
    DECnet itself for anything in parallel. Which sucks. I've just done some changes to the Datatrieve-11 call interface library, so that this is now possible to do. Ping me if you want to know more.

    I've also written a nice interface from PDP-11 C, which makes it pretty
    easy to use both Datatrieve-11 and DECnet.

    The weird things I amuse myself with, 20 years after anyone stopped
    caring. :-)

    Johnny
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  • From lordha...@gmail.com@lordhailsham@gmail.com to alt.sys.pdp11 on Tue Jan 25 12:49:05 2022
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    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 12:12:18 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
    Ok, it's highly unlikely that anyone cares, but just in case I am
    posting this anyway.

    When using RSX-11M-Plus, if you write a program that uses the
    Datatrieve-11 callable interface over DECnet, your program cannot use
    DECnet itself for anything in parallel. Which sucks. I've just done some changes to the Datatrieve-11 call interface library, so that this is now possible to do. Ping me if you want to know more.

    I've also written a nice interface from PDP-11 C, which makes it pretty
    easy to use both Datatrieve-11 and DECnet.

    The weird things I amuse myself with, 20 years after anyone stopped
    caring. :-)

    Johnny
    you're amusing yourself and that's the most important thing Efya Keep the messages coming Johnny
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  • From Tim@tradde@excite.com to alt.sys.pdp11 on Tue Jan 25 15:20:17 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 2:49:06 PM UTC-6, lordha...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 12:12:18 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
    Ok, it's highly unlikely that anyone cares, but just in case I am
    posting this anyway.

    When using RSX-11M-Plus, if you write a program that uses the Datatrieve-11 callable interface over DECnet, your program cannot use DECnet itself for anything in parallel. Which sucks. I've just done some changes to the Datatrieve-11 call interface library, so that this is now possible to do. Ping me if you want to know more.

    I've also written a nice interface from PDP-11 C, which makes it pretty easy to use both Datatrieve-11 and DECnet.

    The weird things I amuse myself with, 20 years after anyone stopped caring. :-)

    Johnny
    you're amusing yourself and that's the most important thing Efya Keep the messages coming Johnny
    As long as it's useful to you then it's all good.
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  • From Johnny Billquist@bqt@softjar.se to alt.sys.pdp11 on Thu Jan 27 17:13:49 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    On 2022-01-26 00:20, Tim wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 2:49:06 PM UTC-6, lordha...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 12:12:18 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote: >>> Ok, it's highly unlikely that anyone cares, but just in case I am
    posting this anyway.

    When using RSX-11M-Plus, if you write a program that uses the
    Datatrieve-11 callable interface over DECnet, your program cannot use
    DECnet itself for anything in parallel. Which sucks. I've just done some >>> changes to the Datatrieve-11 call interface library, so that this is now >>> possible to do. Ping me if you want to know more.

    I've also written a nice interface from PDP-11 C, which makes it pretty
    easy to use both Datatrieve-11 and DECnet.

    The weird things I amuse myself with, 20 years after anyone stopped
    caring. :-)

    Johnny
    you're amusing yourself and that's the most important thing Efya Keep the messages coming Johnny

    As long as it's useful to you then it's all good.

    Oh, it's useful for me. However, I do not need to announce it here for
    it to be useful to me. But in the (unlikely) case that someone else
    stumbles upon the problem, now they know there is a solution.

    And I would think it would be really cool if someone (apart from me)
    actually do still write code using Datatrieve-11 and DECnet, but I'm not really expecting it.

    Johnny
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  • From Tim@tradde@excite.com to alt.sys.pdp11 on Thu Jan 27 09:47:45 2022
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 10:13:50 AM UTC-6, Johnny Billquist wrote:
    On 2022-01-26 00:20, Tim wrote:
    On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 2:49:06 PM UTC-6, lordha...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 24, 2022 at 12:12:18 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote: >>> Ok, it's highly unlikely that anyone cares, but just in case I am
    posting this anyway.


    Oh, it's useful for me. However, I do not need to announce it here for
    it to be useful to me. But in the (unlikely) case that someone else
    stumbles upon the problem, now they know there is a solution.

    And I would think it would be really cool if someone (apart from me) actually do still write code using Datatrieve-11 and DECnet, but I'm not really expecting it.


    I have to admit it is not likely. I have never used either myself. But you did your due diligence and hopefully someone
    else out there may find this useful.
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