This page discusses using TCP/IP services on a DEC VMS host.
TCP/IP Services on VMS Systems
DEC UCX Protocol The
VMS/Ultrix Connection is available as a DEC product.
There are
also a number of commercial products that do the same thing, such as
WIN/TCP from Wollengong, Multi-Net from TGV, and public domain software
PCIP written at Carnegie Mellon University and available on the
Internet.
Wollongong's WIN/TCP networking software:
The
Wollongong Group
1129 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(415) 962-7100
Multi-Net, a TCP/IP multi-format product from:
TGV
Corp.
603 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA
(800) 848-3440
Public domain networking software called PCIP from
Carnegie Mellon University:
This software is available only
through Carnegie Mellon University at a cost of $150 for the media and
the documentation. (An HDS customer reports that the PCIP materials are
"a very nice package, and easy to install".) You can obtain the PCIP
software from:
Computer Science Department
Carnegie-Mellon
University
Pittsburgh, PA
(412) 268-2647
Using the HDS ViewStation on VMS systems has two major
considerations. The ViewStation runs only on TCP/IP networks, so the
VMS host must run on TCP/IP (DECnet is not supported). A variety of
TCP/IP implementations are available, including one from DEC. The CMU
TCP/IP implementation is not supported.
The second consideration is VMS syntax on file names and
paths; the ViewStation will use VMS syntax, but its defaults are
UNIX-based names and paths, so you must specify host type as VMS so the
ViewStation communicates correctly.
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