Original Question
We are trying to submit a remote job at a Vax-Decnet machine from a unix
machine.
According to the man pages "tell"
we tried the following
Unixhost> tell vax1 show time
tell, Unknown application at remote node
However we are getting the error "tell, Unknown application at remote node"
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Summary
Thanks to the following who responded
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Andrew <brennan_at_auhs.edu>
Peter <Peter.Stern_at_weizmann.ac.il>
Emanual <emanuel.salazar_at_mci.com>
Bertil Andersson <Bertil.Andersson_at_ericsson.com>
The tell is a DecNet utility and not the UNIX utility. As such, those without
DecNet would not be able to find the man pages.
It seems that we could not manage to write a copy of the command into the
Dec-Vax system during the invoking of the tell command at the Unix machine.
The solution is to copy via dcp the TELL.COM into the Dec-Vax system
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The solution came from Bertil
>Once upon a time we used a command procedure with the name "tell"
>to give "remote DECnet commands". The procedure first checked that
>a copy of it existed on the remote node. If it did not exist it
>copied itself to the other node and then started to execute a remote
>link (task=0...).
>On Unix/Ultrix you can not use a command procedure in that way
>but you can do it with a program if the command procedure tell.com
>exists on the remote node.
>On my very old Ultrix machine (with DECnet) I have a directory
>/usr/examples/decnet
>which contains the VMS command procedure TELL.COM and the source
>for tell (tell.c)
Received on Tue Dec 29 1998 - 11:50:47 NZDT