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Old news is archived here.

What does it do?

What you get is a DECnet phase IV end-node capabilities on your Linux box.
As it stands you can "set host" to an OpenVMS system, copy files to and from OpenVMS systems, run remote tasks and test the connections. You can also mount VMS directories as Linux Filesystems. VMS users can start terminal sessions on Linux or access to Linux files or foreign mounted filesystems as NCPFS, NFS, SMBFS thro the FAL daemon.

You can also use X-Windows from OpenVMS to Linux if you build your X-Server with DECnet support. This makes Linux into an excellent (and cheap!) X-terminal for VMS as well as Unix now.

Go here to find out how to set up X11.
Go here to find out about LAT.

Frequently asked questions

The FAQ is available in several formats:

Multi-page HTML
Single-Page HTML (suitable for downloading)
SGML

Send me your questions (preferably with answers!)

What's Available?

A Kernel patch for Linux 2.0.35 and 2.2.x that provides socket-level services. You'll need this before anything else will work.(DECnet is included as standard in 2.4 kernels)
File utilities dncopy, dntype, dndir, dndel, dnsubmit, dnprint, dntask and fal.
X-Server binaries for Intel, Alpha and SPARC machines.

Where do I get this stuff?

All the sources are available (under the GPL) as well as binaries (in rpm and deb format) for Intel, Alpha and SPARC architectures.

Mailing List

We encourage all users to join our mailing list, that way we can share experiences and make sure that people who can help will see the messages from users who need help, rather than randomly mailing Eduardo, Steve or Patrick.

To join the mailing list go to http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=4993 and follow the instructions there.

A copy of the list contains before we moved to Sourceforge is available here

What else will happen?

Things we would like to provide are:

Better printing capabilities (whatever that means>
...anything else we can think of.

Contributors

Eduardo Marcelo Serrat: The original kernel patch and base utilities (Home Page)
Steve Whitehouse: The new kernel code (Home Page)
Patrick Caulfield: The dnprogs & LAT packages (Home Page)

We welcome any help, if you want to get involved please contact us via the mailing list.

OpenVMS is a trademark of Compaq, and DECnet probably is too.
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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