Re: Time for Tramp 2.0?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Daniel> Er, yes. Does Emacs even support DECNET systems these days?

If some version of Emacs runs on OpenVMS I wouldn't be surprised to find
that some DECNET support is available.

    Daniel> Anyway, I don't understand DECNET. Is the '::' part of a
    Daniel> distributed file path when used, or is it part of the host name?

I believe it's the separator between the DECNET host name and the path.
Something like

    MYHOST::SYS$DISK2:[SOME.DIRECTORY.PATH]EMACS.EXE;1

(This is almost certainly incorrect at some level.  I haven't used a VMS
machine regularly for over 15 years.)

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