| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
MCC provides a set of generic DECNET access routines MCC$DA...
which with just a few interface changes could be made portable
between VMS and Ultrix.
The MCC-Ultrix project has as a goal 100% compatibility between
MM source code between VMS and Ultrix platforms, at least in the
interfaces to MCC. Use of portable MCC$DA routines will extend
that compatibility in those MMs that talk to their entities through
DECNET.
The interface changes are not extensive, consisting mainly of hiding
the (VMS) NCB structure and hiding the use of a (VMS) mailbox to
communicate out-of-band data.
I would be willing to make the changes if others are willing to go
along with the associated SRM eco and MM code changes.
Any comments?
Jim
ps: While we're at it, it wouldn't take much to extend the MCC$DA
interface to include TCP-IP, but perhaps that's taking it a bit too
far.
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| 44.1 | sounds good to me, but we're not impacted (yet) | TOOK::DITMARS | Pete | Thu Jan 25 1990 10:19 | 15 |
re: .0 We (notification services team) don't have any code written using the MCC$DA routines, but we will be writing some. I see no problem with changing the interface as you describe. > ps: While we're at it, it wouldn't take much to extend the MCC$DA > interface to include TCP-IP, but perhaps that's taking it a bit too > far. As a prospective user of such functionality, I'd certainly vote for something along these lines. Were you thinking of MCC$TA_xxx routines that are (roughly) parallel to the MCC$DA_xxx routines? Pete | |||||