[comp.os.vms] UUCP and NEWS for VMS

TNIELAND@FALCON.BERKELEY.EDU (Ted Nieland - SRL) (04/13/88)

I have seen a lot of messages recently asking about UUCP and NEWS for VMS.  Many
people have been wanting to get something going and some people have been 
offering to do the work.

Well, the work has been going for a while.  The VMSNET Working Group of the 
DECUS VAX SIG has been working UUCP for VMS and tying in the NETNEWS program 
from Australia.  The UUCP port is based on the work done at the GNU project at 
the Free Software Foundation and is not based on AT&T's code (therefore is not 
infringing on AT&T's rights to their code).

VMSNET is supposed to be in Alpha Test right now.  I haven't heard anything on 
how the test is going, but there will one session on it at the Spring DECUS 
Symposium in Cincinatti.  The working group is also hoping to get the software 
on the Spring 1988 VAX SIG Tape.

As more information becomes available, it will be posted to INFO_VAX.

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