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From: diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant)
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Subject: Re: IBM (VM) to UNIX communications
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Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 01:53:04 EDT
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> What we are looking to do is to have some reliable mechanism (like
> uucp on a good day) to transfer files between the two machines, over
> a serial, asynchronous connection preferably.
> I realise that porting UUCP is a possiblity, but likely to be quite
> difficult due to the problems of emulating the UNIX system calls etc.

I would start by looking at kermit, the public domain protocol and programs
developed at Columbia University and elsewhere.  If you are not familiar
with it, there was a writeup in a recent Byte magazine (I don't remember
which issue).  There is also a mailing list called info-kermit, which
may be maintained at columbia-20.arpa, but I won't guarantee that the
machine is the correct one.  There are implementations of this program
on many machines (many 10s at least).
> 
> To carry this further,  my ultimate aim is to interface to the
> IBM PROFS system (PRofessional Office System) which handles email,
> memos, document preparation etc.  Has anyone out there tread along
> this path already?  Again any help in this area will be most
> gratefully received.

This program is not designed for automated operation; however, one node
can be set up as a server (if the particular implementation supports it).  In
this way, the other node would be completely in control of the transfers, which
would allow programmatic control of the transfers rather than manual.
Alternately, it may be possible to set the programs to start up automatically
from a special login (just as uucp does).
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 	    Gary Clark


John Diamant
Systems Software Operation	UUCP:  {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant
Hewlett Packard Co.		ARPA/CSNET: diamant%hpfclp@hplabs.HP.COM
Fort Collins, CO