broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) (02/27/91)
Is there currently a gateway between the Internet and PROFS?
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Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept
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Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) (02/27/91)
In article <1991Feb27.111508.22892@watserv1.waterloo.edu> broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes: >Is there currently a gateway between the Internet and PROFS? > Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept > Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca Whose PROFS system? PROFS is a IBM licensed product for VM that can be run on any 370/390 architecture supporting VM. If you're asking about a *gateway* to allow PROFS users to correspond with Internet users, then yes, such a thing exists. You should look at the PROFS Extended Mail Gateway from IBM and/or PUMP. PUMP eats PROFS notes and regurgitates RFC-compliant mail, and vice versa, in concert with the Columbia/Princeton MAILER code. Send mail to PUMP-L@PUCC.princeton.edu and that list should be able to tell you where to get it. Good luck. Internet mail from PROFS is not really very nice; PROFS wasn't ever designed to deal with it and it isn't very graceful about it. -- David Boyes |The three most dangerous things in the world: dboyes@rice.edu | 1) a programmer with a soldering iron, | 2) a hardware type with a program patch, and "Delays, delays!" | 3) a user with an idea.
broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) (02/28/91)
In article <1991Feb27.155304.28499@rice.edu> dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) writes: >In article <1991Feb27.111508.22892@watserv1.waterloo.edu> broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes: >>Is there currently a gateway between the Internet and PROFS? > >Whose PROFS system? PROFS is a IBM licensed product for VM that >can be run on any 370/390 architecture supporting VM. If you're >asking about a *gateway* to allow PROFS users to correspond with >Internet users, then yes, such a thing exists. Hmm. I guess I misunderstood what PROFS is all about. From what people have told me, there is no fully-interconnected set of sites running the PROFS software; it sounds as if PROFS is only used within a particular company, not to span company boundaries, and that you'd have to have a gateway for each PROFS island. Is this correct? (Although I read something about the X.400 people interfacing to PROFS...?) -- Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca BangPath: {allegra,decvax,utzoo,clyde}!watmath!sunee!broehl Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]
dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) (02/28/91)
In article <1991Feb27.192807.16122@watserv1.waterloo.edu> broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes: >Hmm. I guess I misunderstood what PROFS is all about. From what people >have told me, there is no fully-interconnected set of sites running the >PROFS software; it sounds as if PROFS is only used within a particular >company, not to span company boundaries, and that you'd have to have a >gateway for each PROFS island. Is this correct? Essentially. It's possible to span companies with PROFS if you can arrange to coordinate system names and user information between companies so that both machine names and user names remain unique throughout the meshed systems. The trouble is, to use PROFS you have to be *enrolled* by the system adminsitrator; just having a userid on a machine that supports PROFS isn't enough. Some BITNET sites use PROFS as a primary mail agent, but they're rare and far between. Most people with VM systems and any sense on BITNET use RiceMAIL. PROFS does have some nice features, though. It has a GREAT calendar and meeting scheduling module; that's the only reason we run it here. It also has nice document storage and retrieval functions for DCA formatted documents. We beat people who try to use it for mail soundly with large wooden badgers....8-). >(Although I read something about the X.400 people interfacing to PROFS...?) IBM announced it as part of their OSI gateway package. It still isn't very pretty, and it's expensive. PUMP works better, from all accounts. > Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept > Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca -- David Boyes |The three most dangerous things in the world: dboyes@rice.edu | 1) a programmer with a soldering iron, | 2) a hardware type with a program patch, and "Delays, delays!" | 3) a user with an idea.