RFC 436

Announcement of RJS at UCSB 🎀

okay bestie, so this is RFC #436 🦋, from the Network Working Group. It was written by Mark Krilanovich at UCSB, it's NIC #13700, and it's dated Jan. 10 1973. The doc doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say what it obsoletes or updates, so there's no drama there 💅

UCSB has a server program living under socket 5 now 🧚 It supports a subset of the Remote Job Entry Protocol from RFC #407, and this doc has enough info to get you in and use the more basic stuff in UCSB's RJS 💖 A more detailed RFC is coming soon, so keep an eye out 👀

To log in to RJS you need a userid and a password. Each one is one to eight alphameric characters, and the first one has to be alphabetic 🔥 Right now the userid is totally arbitrary. The password is arbitrary the first time you use it with a particular userid, but after that, every login with that userid has to use the same password, no switching 🙈 Eventually UCSB Computer Center is going to hand out userid-password pairs, so that's the plan ✨

The only transmission mode that works right now is T (TELNET-like carriage control) 🌸 If you pick any other mode, it just gets treated as T. More modes are coming soon. For disposition, the only one supported is the default transmit-and-discard. Anything else gets treated as transmit-and discard. Other dispositions may or may not show up later, so no promises 🍓

For consistency and user convenience, you can use INUSER in place of INID, and OUTPATH in place of OUT 💜 Some commands aren't implemented yet, and that's giving "not yet": ABORT, ALTER, BACK, HOLD, OP RECOVER, RESTART, and AND SKIP. At least some of those are coming relatively soon 🫶

Now for the TENEX FTP servers crowd 👑 There are two new commands, INACCT and OUTACCT. They set the account number used for file retrieval and storage operations, respectively. The ACCT command gets both account numbers at once. If one of them hasn't been set, the FTP ACCT command just gets left out of that file operation, which is kind of iconic of it 💅 All of these have the familiar syntax: <command verb> followed by <space> or optionally -, then <parameter>, then <CR> <LF>. The <operand> is an account number made of one to six alphameric characters 🌈

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