Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!brl-adm!adm!mike@BRL.ARPA From: mike@BRL.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: TASK-TO-TASK Message-ID: <6830@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 13:58:39 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6830 Posted: Fri Apr 10 13:58:39 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 17:46:15 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 40 Hartmut - One solution to your problem could be to use the "PKG" protocol for your application. This is a simple protocol for application-to- application data exchange. The nice thing is that it has been implemented on top of both TCP/IP and DECNET, and the "relay" function is well defined. We use it on all manner of UNIX systems, both System V and Berkeley, including our Cray running UNICOS. NASA Space Telescope Institute has implemented the VMS and DECNET portions, and the DECNET-to-TCP/IP relay functions. I can provide you with the latest UNIX code -- can provide you with the VMS part. At BRL, we use the PKG protocol to implement network graphics servers, run command-and-control simulations, manage some experimental distributed scientific computation, and the like. It is very simple; the UNIX implementation is about 10 pages of C code, and very easy to use. This is one of the many useful tools distributed with the BRL CAD Package, but I can make it available directly to anybody who just wants the PKG code. There is no cost for this code, and no support. Best, -Mike Muuss (301)-278-6678 AV 298-6678 FTS 939-6678 ArpaNet: Postal: Mike Muuss Leader, Advanced Computer Systems Team Systems Engineering and Concepts Analysis Division U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Attn: SLCBR-SECAD (Muuss) APG, MD 21005-5066