DECnet-RSX Guide to User Utilities Sep85

This document, the "DECnet-RSX Guide to User Utilities," published in September 1985 by Digital Equipment Corporation, serves as a manual for terminal users and programmers on how to utilize and apply various DECnet-RSX network utilities.

The guide primarily covers the following user utilities:

1. Network Control Program (NCP): Instructs on examining node, line, and circuit states (local and remote), executing commands on remote nodes, and managing alias node names for simplified addressing and access control.
2. Network File Transfer Utility (NFT): Details interactive remote file operations, including transferring, copying, deleting, listing directories, executing command files on remote nodes, spooling files for printing, and setting default file descriptor values. It supports both MCR and DCL command languages.
3. File Transfer Spooler Utility (FTS): Similar to NFT in file transfer and manipulation capabilities, but it queues and processes user requests according to specified dates and times, offering functions like queuing, listing pending requests, and killing requests.
4. Network Command Terminal Utility (NCT): Explains how to log on to remote host operating systems (like VMS or RSX) that support network command terminals, allowing users to access host system resources as if physically connected.
5. Remote Terminal Utility (RMT): Allows users to connect to and access resources of remote DECnet-RSX nodes, functioning as a virtual terminal to the remote host.
6. Phone Communications Utility (PHO): (Available for RSX-11M-PLUS and Micro/RSX) Facilitates interactive, multi-user conversations, including features like conference calls, telephone directories, leaving messages, and sending file contents.
7. Terminal Communications Utility (TLK): Enables sending single-line messages or engaging in interactive dialogs with other terminal users across the network, supporting both local and remote nodes, and offering video screen dialog.

Additionally, the manual describes QIO (Queue I/O) functions supported by local and host terminal drivers, particularly for the HT: driver, targeting user/programmers. The document provides detailed command syntax, examples, and error messages for each utility.