[comp.os.vms] NEWS under VMS

pete@tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter Kendell) (02/23/88)

     We are currently running VMS 4.6 with Excelan TCP/IP software connected to 
a network which also has UNIX systems running USENET. Is there anyone out there
who has produced a usenet implementation for raw VMS (i.e not Eunice)
Preferably in c - since that is the only language we have. If There are no
such implementation has anyone any thoughts as to what we could do (except for
the simple things such as FTPing from the unix site since then we have the
problem of reading it.)

Please email - will summarise if anything useful comes out

			Thanks in advance

sundvall@kuling.UUCP (Mats Sundvall) (03/03/88)

There is actually such a pckacge available from ANU (Austrailia) written
in C with source available. It is free and we have used it for some time.
It is almost a complete implementation and in v5.0 of the package they
have implemented NNTP upon DECNET.  Very nice. You can download it
from them if you have PSI with a program PSICOPY also available from
them. I can send you a short bootstrap routine that will download
PSICOPY and a compress and decompress program from them if you want.

	Mats

nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) (03/16/88)

Mats Sundvall <mcvax!enea!kuling!sundvall@uunet.uu.net> writes:
> There is actually such a pckacge available from ANU (Austrailia) written
> in C with source available. It is free and we have used it for some time.
> It is almost a complete implementation and in v5.0 of the package they
> have implemented NNTP upon DECNET.  Very nice. ...

This package is on the Fall '87 VAX SIG tape (from Anaheim).  The
F87 SIG tape is now in distribution to the LUGs and should be
available from the DECUS Library.


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