Announcement of RJS at UCSB
A January 1973 notice that UCSB now offered a Remote Job Entry server, with login rules and supported commands.
Krilanovich, M., "Announcement of RJS at UCSB", RFC 436, DOI 10.17487/RFC0436, January 1973, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc436>.
@misc{rfc436,
series = {Request for Comments},
number = 436,
howpublished = {RFC 436},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0436},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc436},
author = {M. Krilanovich},
title = {{Announcement of RJS at UCSB}},
pagetotal = 1,
year = 1973,
month = jan,
} RFC text
Network Working Group Mark Krilanovich
RFC #436 UCSB
NIC #13700 Jan. 10 1973
Announcement of RJS at UCSB
There now is resident under socket 5 at UCSB a server program which
supports a subset of the Remote Job Entry Protocol of RFC #407. This
document includes enough information to allow the user to gain access
to, and use the more basic function of UCSB's RJS. An RFC containing
more detailed documentation will be forthcoming shortly.
The accounting parameters needed to login to RJS are a userid and a
password, each consisting of one to eight alphameric characters, the
first of which must be alphabetic. The userid is, at present,
completely arbitrary. The password is arbitrary the first time it is
used with a particular userid; in subsequent logins with that userid,
the same password must appear. Eventually, users will be assigned
userid-password pairs by UCSB Computer Center.
The only transmission mode supported currently is T (TELNET-like
carriage control); any other is treated as T. The other modes will soon
be added. The only disposition supported is the default transmit-and-
discard; any other is treated as transmit-and discard. The other
dispositions may or may not be added later.
For consistency and user convenience, the command 'INUSER' may be
substituted for 'INID' and 'OUTPATH' for 'OUT'. The following commands
are not as yet implemented: ABORT, ALTER, BACK, HOLD, OP RECOVER,
RESTART, AND SKIP. At least some of these will be implemented
relatively soon.
In order to accommodate users of TENEX FTP servers, the commands
'INACCT' and 'OUTACCT' have been added. These are used to set the
account number used in the file retrieval and storage operations,
respectively. The command 'ACCT' may be used to get both account
numbers. If one of these account numbers has not been specified, the
FTP 'ACCT' command will be omitted from the appropriate file operation.
These commands have the familiar syntax of <command verb> followed by
<space> or optionally '-', followed by <parameter> and <CR> <LF>. The
<operand> is an account number consisting of one to six alphameric
characters.
[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with ]
[ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 9/99 ]
AI ELI5
On this page
§1The RJS Server at UCSB
Mark Krilanovich of UCSB announces that a server program is now resident under socket 5 at UCSB. It supports a subset of the Remote Job Entry Protocol of RFC 407, and the document gives enough information to gain access to and use the more basic functions of UCSB's RJS. More detailed documentation was to follow in another RFC.
A door to the university computer is now open at a certain number, and this note says how to knock.
§2Logging In
Login needs a userid and a password, each one to eight alphameric characters, the first of which must be alphabetic. The userid is for now completely arbitrary. A password is arbitrary the first time it is used with a userid, but later logins with that userid must give the same password. Eventually the UCSB Computer Center would assign userid-password pairs.
You pick a name and a secret word the first time, and must use the same ones afterwards, like a clubhouse password.
§3What Works and What Does Not
The only transmission mode supported is T (TELNET-like carriage control); any other is treated as T. The only disposition supported is the default transmit-and-discard. The commands ABORT, ALTER, BACK, HOLD, OP RECOVER, RESTART and SKIP are not yet implemented, though some would be soon.
For convenience, INUSER may be used for INID and OUTPATH for OUT. For users of TENEX FTP servers, INACCT and OUTACCT set the account number for file retrieval and storage, and ACCT gets both. Account numbers are one to six alphameric characters, and if none is given the FTP ACCT command is omitted.
Only the simplest options work so far. Some buttons are still unfinished, and a few extra shortcuts were added for people using certain other systems.