malcolm@csdgwy.csd.unsw.oz (Malcolm Wade) (07/24/88)
In article <421@dragos.UUCP>, work@dragos.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu) writes: > Well, we finally got a copy of News for VMS from ANU. It looks like > a really nice package, unfortunately there are no mechanisms for transfering > news other than NNTP. The software will unbatch Unix news batches, but it > makes no provisions for transfering those news batches to the VMS site. Not true. I receive my news batches from our main UNIX feed system via TCP mail to an account on my VMS system. I have a command procedure which runs hourly which extracts NEWMAIL from this account and the uses NEWS to process this file. The command procedure (NEWSKIM.COM) is supplied with the distribution. I have modified mine a bit to suit my site. This command procedure also shows how to feed NEWS batches from one VMS system to another via DECnet. All this is explained in the documentation. The main NEWS transfer method between non-VMS systems is done using e-mail and PMDF. I even send batched NEWS to another VMS system via PMDF. The mail is queued and the other system dials us on a nightly basis using the PMDF Phonenet channel. This works really well. I have yet to implement the NNTP feed system yet, this is on a list of things to do. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Malcolm Wade, ASCnet: malcolm@csdgwy.csd.unsw.oz | | VAX/VMS Systems Group, PSI: 0505226633020::MALCOLM | | University of New South Wales, Phone: +61 2 697 2836 | | Sydney, 2033, Australia Fax: +61 2 662 8665 | | | | Note: I'm only doing this to improve my typing !! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+