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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: RamNet: Anybody ever used it?
Message-ID: <304@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:02:32 GMT
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hal@world.std.com (Harry A Levinson) writes:

>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.)

	Our office picked up a few copies some time back for internal
evaluation. We had a number of users who *had* to run from DOS PC's, but
wanted to connect to our UUCP-based servers for email. After much frustration,
I gave up trying to get it to work. It's configurations are not at all like
standard UUCP - they deviate even more than UULINK. I was only able to mail
to users on the local system - and the mailer is rather primitive. Tried 
the public domain FSUUCP and WAFFLE programs. Couldn't get FSUUCP working,
but WAFFLE's UUCP worked well. 

	In summary, of those attempted, I'd say go with Waffle. Documentation
isn't up to UN!X standards (sic) but if you can't make it fly at least it
cost only time. Doesn't run as a TSR as I recall, but it might work within
a Desqview or Windows environment.

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