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From: LEICHTER@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: FAL and DAP
Message-ID: <8802210438.AA28773@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 88 22:51:00 GMT
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	I am looking for more detailed information about FALs and DAP.  I have
	found some info in the Micro-fiche about it but my eyes have
	grown tired trying to walk though all the code.

	Has anyone out there done any work with FALs and DAP?  Specifically
	has anyone ever tried to use DAP directly from a user program?

Why would you want to?  Anything you could accomplish this way you could
accomplish a lot more easily by using a transparent DECnet link, and letting
RMS worry about DAP.  The only time this would make sense would be if you were
trying to develop your own DAP implementation for a DECnet implementation that
didn't provide one.  I've never heard of one....

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

DAP and most of the other DECnet protocols are documented, though not in the
standard documentation set - you have to order the manuals.  I don't have my
up-to-date copy of the Documentation Products Directory here, so I can't get
you the order numbers - but the stuff is in there.
							-- Jerry