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From: hal@world.std.com (Harry A Levinson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: RamNet: Anybody ever used it?
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.213233.14450@world.std.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:32:33 GMT
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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I am trying to setup a bunch of DOS machines as Point-of-Sale terminals
and would like to have uucp type mail and file transfers available
in the background.  We have a Sys V/386 system that we want to use
to communicate with these remote POS systems.

We are currently using a product called SideTalk from MagicSoft (ever
heard of it?).  The nicest thing about this TSR comm software is
that it only takes about 80K.  Most of the others that we have
looked at take at least twice that.  The drawback is that it only
talks to itself.  Does anyone know if this company still exists?

I recently received a flyer on a program called RamNet from Software
Concepts Design.  It is supposed to be a TSR version of uucp with mail
and other nice features.  Does anyone have any comments on this product
or another product worth investigating? (It does not have to be
commercially supported.)

Thanks,
harry
hal@world.std.com