Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!amdahl!ames!ncar!gatech!mcnc!decvax!mandrill!musky2!terrell
From: terrell@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU (Roger Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: News & Usenet for VAX/VMS
Message-ID: <90@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:36:39 GMT
References: <107@limbic.UUCP>
Reply-To: terrell@musky2.UUCP (Roger Terrell)
Organization: Muskingum College, New Concord, OH
Lines: 28
Keywords: news usenet vax/vms

In article <107@limbic.UUCP> gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
>In essence, I was unable to get together a connection from a VMS system
>to usenet without investing literally thousands of dollars for emulators
>and software (and possibly connections to expensive networks).
>
>I would suggest
>that anyone looking for a challenging and useful project look into making
>a uucp port to VMS, establishing a usenet interface through uucp for VMS (like
>uucp systems files, etc), making interfaces to VMS mail (and possibly DECNET),
>and integrating this effort into the many existing news packages for VMS.

I posted an article in comp.mail.uucp yesterday which I should have cross-
posted to this group as well:

I am interested in doing a "UUCP port", or at least UUCP-compatible,
to VAX/VMS, but first want to be sure that nothing of the kind is already
underway.  I would be doing it as a senior programming project (undergraduate)
and need any/all information on the UUCP protocols.  Any references to guides/
books on the subject would be helpful.  If I can get UUCP done, then I would
like to tackle News/Usenet next...

--Roger

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Roger Terrell
...musky2!terrell (UUCP) 
terrell@muskingum.edu (CSNet)