Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
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From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: Re: Internet <-> PROFS
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.192807.16122@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Feb27.111508.22892@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb27.155304.28499@rice.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 19:28:07 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.155304.28499@rice.edu> dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) writes:
>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?
>
>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.

Hmm.  I guess I misunderstood what PROFS is all about.  From what people
have told me, there is no fully-interconnected set of sites running the
PROFS software; it sounds as if PROFS is only used within a particular
company, not to span company boundaries, and that you'd have to have a
gateway for each PROFS island.  Is this correct?

(Although I read something about the X.400 people interfacing to PROFS...?)

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