smith@uoregon.UUCP (smith) (09/09/86)
Any RSCS (an IBM product) out there???
I am interested in obtaining an RSCS line driver that simply
sends the files/etc destined for the node the line driver
is supposed to be talking to to the reader of some other
Virtual machine.
The reason I want such an animal is that we have various hosts
at the University of Oregon that we want to put on Bitnet. We
already have an email system that serves these hosts in a
reasonable fashion. Bitnet is driven by RSCS and RSCS has no
provision for allowing any other low-level protocol to deliver
a file or mail. What we need is a RSCS line driver that punches
files/mail to some VM reader (our mailer/router) and we can then
fool everyone into believing that every host on campus is directly
connected to Bitnet. We are aware that there are several third
party products that can be obtained to put various machines on
Bitnet (UREP for Unix, Jnet for VMS, etc.), but the cost of
purchasing this software for every machine on campus is too much
for it to be an alternative.
If anyone has any information about an RSCS line driver that
punches files to a reader instead of talking to a remote host,
then I would sure appreciate hearing about it. Thanks for your
time.
Dale Smith, Senior Systems Programmer
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