DECnet-RSX V4.5 Guide to User Utilities Oct89

This "DECnet-RSX Guide to User Utilities" manual, published in October 1989 by Digital Equipment Corporation, explains how to use various user utilities within a DECnet-RSX environment. It is primarily aimed at users familiar with the RSX operating system.

The document covers the following core utilities and their functionalities:

1. Network Control Program (NCP): Used to display information about network nodes, lines, and circuits, including their states and reachability. It also allows users to set, change, and manage alias node names for simplified network access.
2. Network File Transfer (NFT): Enables immediate file operations across local and remote DECnet nodes. Users can transfer, copy, append, delete, list directories, rename files, set file protection, spool files to printers, and submit remote commands. It details usage for both Digital Command Language (DCL) and MCR (Macro Control Routine) users.
3. File Transfer Spooler (FTS): Provides similar file transfer and manipulation capabilities to NFT but with the added feature of queuing file operations for later processing. This utility is exclusively for MCR users.
4. Network Command Terminal (NCT): Allows users to log on to and interact with remote host operating systems (like DECnet-RSX, VAX, or PRO/DECnet) as if their terminal were physically connected to the host.
5. Remote Terminal (RMT): Specifically designed for accessing resources on remote DECnet-RSX nodes, creating a logical terminal connection.
6. Phone Communications (PHO): Offers an interactive, multi-user communication utility simulating telephone features such as conference calls, a directory, holding calls, and sending messages or file contents. It supports communication with DECnet-RSX, VAX, and PRO/DECnet users.
7. Terminal Communications (TLK): A basic text-based communication utility that allows users to send single-line messages or engage in interactive dialogs with other terminal users on local or remote nodes.

The manual also includes detailed information on file descriptor syntax, wildcard usage, logical names in file operations, and dedicated appendices for various status and error messages from each utility, FTS log file messages, and QIO functions supported by the HT: driver for programmers.