SYSMSH@ULKYVX.BITNET.UUCP (01/11/87)
We've got a package called JNET that you can get from a company called "Joiner Associates" in Madison, Wisconsin. They advertise in hardcopy and digital review from time to time, so look for their ad. Their software has turned out to be quite user friendly a robust, not to mention easy on the old system manager. You need either a DMF-32 or a DP-11 interface to talk bisync protocol over a synchronous line to a IBM type system. Since you are running profs you have to have VM around (shudder) and if you have VM around chances are you have RSCS. RSCS is what the JNET stuff will talk to over that synchronous link. Using JNET you can interface VMSmail to Profs. You can also interface ALL-IN-1 to Profs, although this tends to create "political instability" in a mixed shop. We've been setting up printers on the VAX that our IBM users routinely use via the RSCS/JNET link. JNET also lets us connect to BITNET (if you are an educational site). I highly recommend JNET. Mark Hittinger/systems programmer iv/ocis south center University of Louisville/louisville, ky 40292 sysmsh%ulkyvx.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu