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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: UNIX to VMS via DECNET
Message-ID: <827@maynard.BSW.COM>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 23:34:06 EST
Article-I.D.: maynard.827
Posted: Mon Feb  9 23:34:06 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 05:38:26 EST
References: <3019@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> <3056@osu-eddie.UUCP> <3423@cae780.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Lines: 18
Keywords: UNIX,VMS,DECNET, Kermit
Summary: DECnet protocols are public
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In article <3423@cae780.TEK.COM> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>                                           ... I doubt that there are VMS
>protocols available under unix (except that Vaxen running Ultrix can speak
>both DECnet and ftp/telnet and act as relays) since the protocols are
>proprietary, but ftp/telnet under VMS is quite possible.

Wrong - the DECnet protocols are not proprietary.  They are publicly
available, and anyone is free to use them to implement DECnet.  A local
company called Technology Concepts, Inc. (TCI) does that for a living.
Their DECnet product is called CommUNITY;  Sun just licensed it.  TCI
was recently purchased by Bell Atlantic, so you'll probably be hearing
a lot more about their products now that they're stuffed with Phone Company
cash.
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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