Article 129595 of comp.os.vms:
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From: hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.com (Stephen Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: NCP on an Alpha Platform
Date: 19 Sep 1995 13:55:50 GMT
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In article <272DCF7054D@pdcfs1.pdc.nhs.gov.uk>, "Jonathan Bleasdale"
<JON_B@pdc.nhs.gov.uk> writes:

:Could somebody tell me what replaces NCP SHOW KNOWN NODES
:on an Alpha running VMS 6.1 & DECNet/OSI 5.8 ?

 To see the NCL equivilent of an NCP command, use:

   $ RUN SYS$UPDATE:DECNET_MIGRATE
   DECNET_MIGRATE> CONVERT COMMAND "insert-NCP-command-here"

 There isn't a direct analog -- what used to be stored in a local database
 under DECnet Phase IV is now distributed across one or more name servers.

 SHOW KNOWN NODES displays various sorts of information, and there is no
 single NCL command that displays the same combination of information. 
 Some combination of SHOW ROUTING CIRCUIT and SHOW ROUTING DESTINATION
 commands -- executed on the local OSI router -- will get you the list
 of nodes.  (It's not clear what part(s) of the SHOW KNOWN NODES command
 you are interested in...)

 With DECnet OSI V6.0 and later -- which I would upgrade to from your
 current V5.8 -- the DECwindows NET$MGMT tool includes a pulldown SHOW
 KNOWN NODE COUNTERS, and this allows you to see what nodes an end-node
 has contacted.

 And with DECnet OSI V6.0 or later, you can use the sys$system:dsmdecdns
 DECwindows Motif application to browse the DECdns namespace -- which is
 where the list of nodes is kept under DECnet OSI and under DNS-enabled
 DECnet Phase IV.  You can also use DECnet_register to query the namespace,
 and you can follow the name resolution process using sys$system:cdi$trace.

 And no, I'm not an OSI expert.  

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   Stephen Hoffman      OpenVMS Engineering      hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.com
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