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- From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.admin,vmsnet.misc
- Subject: Re: Notes-to-News software
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.110815.4444@dmc.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 11:08:15 EDT
- References: <1992Aug13.110313.982@dragon.com>
- Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA
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- In article <1992Aug13.110313.982@dragon.com>, cts@dragon.com writes:
- > There is a discussion now taking place on DECUServe in the DECUSERVE_FORUM
- > notefile regarding a News <> DECUServe gateway.
- >
- > The evolving thread seems to be heading to implementation in several
- > phased steps, after which the results of the step would be evaluated
- > before moving ot the next step. My best guess right now that the most
- > likly implementation would be read only groups for a couple conferences
- > as pilots (assuming of course, that anything at all gets approved).
- >
- > I'd like to start gathering current info on what notes-to-news software
- > exists, and is in use.
- >
- > I'm aware of three; one is a version done by Dec; anyone know any
- > contacts? I also am aware that someone did an implementation in
- > Mumps; I also have crude version in DCL and FORTRAN. I'd like to
- > identify the best software to implement this, while looking to the
- > future of possibly adding the ability for subscriber or general
- > posts (not necessarily there now, but doable in the future).
- >
- > Charles
- > cts@dragon.com
-
- George Carrette did one that converts the content of an extract/unseen to a
- news batch. I'm currently using it to produce a read only gateway for the
- ISVNET notes files. The source was posted to VMSNET.SOURCES. I fixed a couple
- of small problems (it needed to be able to deal with mail headers) and passed
- the modified source back to George for reposting.
-
- The tools needed are:
-
- news-to-notes (vmsnet.sources)
- deliver (ditto)
- Notes Extractor, initial population of notes files (command procedure)
- Notes Extractor, production tracking of notes files (command procedure)
- Mail connection between extractor and gateway.
-
- The whole read only gateway took about 6 hours to put together, including a
- fair amount of hand holding to do the initial uploading of the ISVNET notes
- files. If you want me to do it for you, let me know and I'll set it up.
-
- Dick Munroe
-
- p.s. If you are working in "conjunction" with DEC, you might want to take a
- look at PAN (an internal production, Pete N Andy's notes tool) which might do
- yeoman's service for the other direction of the gateway.
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