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From: hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dnet and HP-UX?
Message-ID: <199@nlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:59:44 GMT
References: <2807@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <6080013@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <2255@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: hans@nlgvax.UUCP (Hans Zuidam)
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[Edited slightly --hz]
In article <2255@uokmax.UUCP> ngorelic@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf) writes:
>>In article <6080013@hpcupt1.HP.COM> pdg@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Paul Gootherts) writes:
>>The HP 9000 Series 800 (HP-PA-based) has sockets...
>>the HP 9000 Series 300 (68K-based) has sockets..
>>I don't believe the HP 9000 Series 500 ever got sockets.
>>
>	Ah, the problems with generalizations...  Allow me to rephrase:
>I tried to compile Dnet on our HP9000 Ser. 500.  It gaged and barfed severly,
>and told me that it had absolutly no idea what a socket was.

The HP9000 Series 500 do have a socket like mechanism. They are called
virtual circuits. Their functionallity is almost the same as that of 4BSD
TCP sockets. As far as I can remember the function calls all started with
"vc_". As a requirement you do need to have the Remote File Access and ??
(can't remember that one) software that comes (came?) with the ethernet
interfaces.

Because it is more than two years back that I used the HP9000/500 for the
last time, I cannot tell which manuals to look for. If you send me a mail
I can inquire for pointers on the appropriate manuals. Maybe HP allows me
to send you the appropriate manual pages?

						Hans
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