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From: Erik.Huizer%SURFNET.NL@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Subject: RE: Availability of PC-based UA
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Hi,

> I'm currently looking for PC-based X.400 UA's. Could someone be so
> gentle and tell me which products are currently available.

There's several:

- Retix, probably the most widespread, works under a neut MS-Windows
interface (they also supply an Ascii interface, but I have never seen it.

- Torch communications seems to have one (I haven't seen it)

- Nettel (a UK company) has one, which I like very much. It's not windows
based (saves memory with Dos and your budget) (it has a Mac version that is
windowbased of course) and has a nice menu-structured Novell-like
look-and-feel interface. Easy to use for novices and nice for experts.
Supports various body-parts. Works over any fileserver based PC-lan
(Novell, PC-lan etc.)

None of these are (yet) X.400 (88) so none support P7.

The following companies I know are working on P7 RUA's for PC's:

Osiware, Nettel, Retix, Dataco (Denmark)

We expect to finish testing the Nettel product by the end of this year.
This includes a massive "novice user" test. The report will be in English
and available fo who wants it. Just let me know.

Erik Huizer
SURFnet BV