[ih] what is NLS?

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 14:43:15 PDT 2019


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_(computer_system)

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 28-Apr-19 08:58, reed at reedmedia.net wrote:
> RFC 608 mentions: "NIC designed and maintains a [hosts] source file, in 
> NLS format"
> 
> What is NLS?
> 
> RFC 488 (Mar. 1973) about onsite courses about using NLS over the 
> Network, retrieval of journal items, and using the NIC with "LOCATOR" 
> and "NIC/QUERY", and NLS control characters
> 
> RFC 543 (Jul 1973) mentions NLS Journal System, NLS Submit Message, an 
> origin statement, FTP has XNLS command to convert NLS to sequential 
> form, Ident System, mails transformed to NLS files with unique catalog 
> numbers, 
> 
> RFC 580 (Oct. 1973) suggests that proposed protocols be submitted as nls 
> files.
> 
> RFC 674 (Dec. 1974) indicates that NIC 31484 is document 
> <GJOURNAL>31484.NLS  and mentioned documents in <NLS> directory.
> 
> RFC 694 (June 1975) mentions several documents in <NLS> directory.
> 
> IEN149/RFC765 (June 1980) mentions NLS
> 
> What is NLS?
> 
> Are NIC document numbers same as NLS unique catalog numbers?
> 
> What is the header information at top of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc674.txt ? Is that related to NLS?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 
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