RFC 477 (rfc477) - Page 1 of 19

Remote Job Service at UCSB

Network Working Group                                     M. Krilanovich
Request for Comments: 477                                           UCSB
NIC: 14922                                                   23 May 1973
References: RFCs 354, 407,
            NIC 16306


                       Remote Job Service at UCSB

Introduction

   This RFC is the follow-on document to RFC #436, which briefly
   described UCSB'S RJS.  This document restates the essence of the
   official RJE protocol (RFC #407), and documents in detail UCSB's
   implementation of it.

   The program described here is available under socket 5 at UCSB, and
   supports a subset of the official protocol.  Specifically, no checks
   are made for RJE control cards in the input file, jobs may not be
   batched in the input file, only output file dispositions of discard
   and transmit-and-discard are implemented, no restart markers are sent
   on output in FTP blocked mode, and several of the commands are not
   implemented.  There are also other ways in which RJS is known to be
   less than ideal.  For example, whenever any error is detected while
   processing a job, such as the output's destination host being dead,
   the job is abandoned, and any further output deleted.  A re-write of
   RJS is scheduled for the near future (in about six months), and many
   of these deficiencies will be corrected at that time.   (Any
   suggestions for further improvements are more than welcome, and may
   be made through the Journal to MCK, by mail to the author at the UCSB
   Computer Center, or by telephone at (8O5) 961-3454.)

   In addition to the deviations from the protocol stated above, several
   modifications have been made to increase user convience.
   Specifically, the INACCT, OUTACCT, and ACCT commands have been added
   to accommodate users of TENEX and other systems requiring an account
   number, OUTPATH has been added as a synonym for OUT and INUSER for
   INID, and the BYE command does not cause an ABORT.  Also, in
   recognition of the fact that the official protocol is biased heavily
   toward use by programs, and is therefore rather cumbersome for human
   users, an alternate, optional, command syntax has been provided.  An
   attempt was made to make this alternate syntax, called 'local
   syntax', as 'natural' as possible to a human user.  It also provides
   some features not available with the standard syntax.







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