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From: dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet <-> PROFS
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.155304.28499@rice.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:53:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.111508.22892@watserv1.waterloo.edu> broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) writes:
>Is there currently a gateway between the Internet and PROFS?
>	Bernie Roehl, University of Waterloo Electrical Engineering Dept
>	Mail: broehl@sunee.waterloo.edu OR broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca

Whose PROFS system? PROFS is a IBM licensed product for VM that
can be run on any 370/390 architecture supporting VM. If you're
asking about a *gateway* to allow PROFS users to correspond with
Internet users, then yes, such a thing exists.

You should look at the PROFS Extended Mail Gateway from IBM
and/or PUMP. PUMP eats PROFS notes and regurgitates RFC-compliant
mail, and vice versa, in concert with the Columbia/Princeton
MAILER code. Send mail to PUMP-L@PUCC.princeton.edu and that list
should be able to tell you where to get it.

Good luck. Internet mail from PROFS is not really very nice;
PROFS wasn't ever designed to deal with it and it isn't very
graceful about it.


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