Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!jeh
From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: FAL and DAP
Summary: Have you tried OPEN, CLOSE, GET, PUT, etc.?
Message-ID: <2529@crash.cts.com>
Date: 11 Feb 88 22:00:52 GMT
References: <5412@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego, CA
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In article <5412@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes:
>I am looking for more detailed information about FALs and DAP.  ...
>has anyone ever tried to use DAP directly from a user program?

Sure.  You just put nodename:: (or, if proxies aren't enabled or don't
work, nodename"username password"::) in front of the filespec that you
pass to RMS, or to your favorite high-level language's interface to RMS.
You can then do anything to that file that you could do to a local file. 
I'm not sure what would be gained (other than buying yourself a LOT of
work) by having your program send and receive DAP packets itself.  

>Finally, does anyone know where I can get documrentation on it?

Yes, if you insist.  See my next posting, in response to someone who
wants the order numbers for the DNA Functional Specification documents.
(If you find any capabilities in the DAP protocol that RMS doesn't let
you get to, let the rest of us know, ok?)