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Subject: Re: Networking query
Message-ID: <2035@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 11:37:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 19 11:37:12 1984
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From: Mark Johnson 

About connecting between the 780 (running VMS?) and the 11/44 running
Unix....  You indicated that you had an X.25 link from your 780 to the
university network.  Is the 11/44 connected as well and are you running
PSI on the VAX??  If so, why not run SYS$SYSTEM:PSIPAD?  That program is
similar to the DECNET RTPAD which is run when you SET HOST to another
system.  PSIPAD will prompt you for a command which could change PAD
parameters, attach to a remote system or perform a few other actions.

We are using PSI to connect a 780 running VMS to a Multics system (the
one I am composing the message from) and it works ok.  The PSI software
only supports the DTE side of an X.25 connection so our Multics system
acts as the DCE (the "network").  It seems to run pretty efficiently
too.

A final note, the VAX to Multics connection seems to always work ok.
The Multics to VAX connection has a number of "quirks" with echoing,
especially with running EMACS on the VAX.  I don't know if this is a
generic problem, but you might want to know.

  --Mark Johnson