[news.software.notes] Has anyone ported notes to VMS?

wunder@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (12/12/87)

   Or better yet, has anyone made notes talk via nntp?

Nope.  NNTP depends upon "article numbers" which are an artifact of
the news "database".  Notes doesn't have article numbers, and they
would have to be added in order to implement NNTP.  I doubt that
anyone has done it.

   I am interested in Notes because of its access permissions facility.

Then don't use NNTP, because NNTP can't tell you who the client user
is, so there is no way to do access permissions.  Apparently there is
a version of NNTP that uses the Kerberous authentication system, but
that is definately non-standard and not yet available.

wunder

fosler@inmet.UUCP (12/15/87)

   I have ported notes to VMS in my spare time over the last year.  It is 
about 95% done.  The version I have up and running networks three VMS
system by using copy over VMS and TCP (from a unix system).  I haven't
reported all of the programs that come with notes (like from and to news),
but, it seems to do a good job.  If you are interested in the VMS version
(you need to have the VMS C compiler and version of VMS 4.4 or greater,
send me mail and we can talk about it.  Also, does anyone know what
the status of notes is, is it PD or what?

Carl Fosler
{ima,ihnp4}!inmet!fosler
fosler@inmet.inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc
Bethesda, MD  (301) 657-3775.