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- From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VMS-Sun connectivity
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.130042.198@rlgsc.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:00:41 GMT
- References: <1140@racerx.bridge.COM>
- Followup-To: comp.os.vms
- Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY
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- In article <1140@racerx.bridge.COM>, ken@Bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) writes:
- >
- > I'm trying to bridge the huge void between our SunOS and VMS users.
- >
- > We've got (I'm told) Multinet TCP/IP on one of the Vaxen that lets us
- > rlogin and ftp between environments, and an NFS server on the Vax that
- > lets us mount VMS directories on the Suns ("VMS to Ultrix Connection"
- > software).
- >
- > What I don't know how to do is to get e-mail and news between
- > environments; it's not included in the TCP/IP networking package. The
- > vaxes are running VMS mail or whatever it is that comes by default
- > (*not* All-in-One). The Suns, of course, consume and generate
- > RFC822-compliant mail, and use SMTP.
- >
- > 1) Are there any bridging software packages that run on VMS that would
- > use SMTP to talk to the Suns' sendmail and whatever is necessary on
- > the VMS side? Is it even possible?
- There are a wide range of packages which provide support TCP/IP
- on VMS (Multinet and Woolongong among them). They all (at least
- as far as I recall) provide support for Mail.
-
- >
- > 2) Where are there any NNTP packages for VMS? I've got news coming
- > into a Sun with UUCP, and available from there via NNTP. I need a
- > VMS Multinet NNTP client and user-interface software. What about
- > VMS/VNEWS, and where can I find it?
- >
- There are several packages out there which provide this service.
- I believe that the packages mentioned above to provide at least
- major parts of the required support. Additionally, there is the
- ANU NEWS package, which is obtainable from the DECUS library,
- which supports quite a range of different formats and protocols
- for exchanging news.
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