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From: kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein)
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Subject: uucp for VAX/VMS
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Date: Sun, 28-Jun-87 04:22:35 EDT
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  I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, Ed, but I've been told (and
will definitely investigate) that the Software Tools mailer STmail, which runs
under VMS and connects to VMSmail, uses SMTP, which is also used by uucp. It's
a step, anyway. 

  Don't some script-based modem programs have the capability of dialing a
number until success, then sending? Seems to me that XTALK does, but I doubt it
runs under UNIX. 

  I've been toying lately with the idea that it might be worthwhile to have a
newsgroup dedicated to "interconnectivity". That is, products and techniques
which allow various systems to communicate. There are a lot of tantalizing
jigsaw pieces. I'd really like to hear from anyone who knows about any method
of performing connections between unusual systems, or using methods more
unusual than garden-variety TCP/IP. Things like VMS-based NFS, or inter-OS mail
that doesn't need to go to heaven and back. I'm doing a kind of study, and
would be happy to publish high points here.
/kenw
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