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DECnet: Object declaration

The Question is:

I have written a set of shell functions for networking,
which swapping between underlying network protocols. There
are two to handle incoming calls, one which expects VMS to
start the process and one which expects the process to
have been started manually.

Both work fine under UCX, the autostart one making use of
the auxiliary server.

I'm having trouble getting the manual start option working
under DECnet though. I want it to be started, declare
itself as a resident nontransparent network object, then
sit and wait for the first connection. I can't find this
in the manuals, and with all the guesses I've made it
expects there to be an outstanding call to answer and
crashes when it doesn't find one.

Please, I'd really appreciate any help you can give me.

Cheers,

The Answer is:

   This topic is covered in the DECnet manuals, in the task-to-task
   commications chapter.  (The application declares itself as a known
   network object or a known network name...)  This is in the section
   of the documentation describing the $qio IO$_ACPCONTROL request.

   Also see sys$examples:db*.c.