Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!jumbo!jg
From: jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X DECnet connection
Message-ID: <13201@jumbo.dec.com>
Date: 27 Jul 88 15:37:02 GMT
References: <8807252042.AA00785@drls21.sun.com> <307@laic.UUCP>
Reply-To: jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys)
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto
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The DECnet implementation in the MIT release was implemented on Ultrix,
where DECnet is fully integrated into the BSD socket mechanism.
The dnet_conn routine is a library routine which, for DECnet, does about
a page worth's of socket related system calls to set up the connection
(sure would be nice if there were an inet_conn routine in the library...).

It would be nice if other DECnet implementations used the same
programming interface, but I guess that's being too rational :-)
to expect.  Seeing that implementing DECnet support for X for the 
first time in took us one afternoon, I can't imagine it being too hard
at least on the client side; the server side may be a bit more entertaining
but I've never looked at the DECnet on Sun's.

				- Jim Gettys
				  Systems Research Center