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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:57:00 EST
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- From: "J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818" <JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET>
- Subject: JNET API question...
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- A few months ago, documentation regarding the JNET API v3.5 arrived; dated
- May 1991, I don't think it arived *that* long ago. I remember when it did
- arrive I was intrigued but at the time didn't have anything to do with it.
-
- Now I do, but I don't think there's a function that will do what I need.
-
- We have a user environment here that isolates our users from DCL completely.
- We use VMS Mail, JNET, PMDF and so forth but our users are totally insulated
- from DCL. All access to MAIL and to the RECEIVE and SEND commands are through
- this user interface of our own devising. RECEIVEd files generally weren't a
- problem until fairly recently. Now they're cropping up with regularity and
- our users are, apparently, ignoring the entreaties to use the LIAS SELECT
- command (we've editted JAN_SYS:LOGIN to display a different message, one that
- makes sense in the users' environment) and receive their files (to some extent,
- since they've got no way to *access* the files afterwards (no EDITORS are made
- available to them, except in VMS MAIL/SEND), I can almost agree with their lack
- of interest in RECEving them...;-)
-
- Our environment uses the VMS MAIL API to report if the user has outstanding NEW
- MAIL messages. I was hoping part of the JNET API would provide a count of
- files waiting to be RECEIVED (rather than coding the overhead to search for the
- files JAN_RECEIVE:xxx.RSC.*, where "xxx" is the user's identification). So far
- I don't see any such count. I'm betting there isn't any quick,non-file-
- counting way of doing this, but hope springs eternal. Anybody have any
- suggestions?
-
- +-"Never Underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes"--+
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