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From: jkingdon@chinet.chi.il.us (James Kingdon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Press Release
Summary: PMDF is wonderful
Message-ID: <6111@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Jul 88 20:53:46 GMT
References: <8807270734.AA01663@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jkingdon@chinet.chi.il.us (James Kingdon)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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This is in response to the person who described many trials and tribulations
trying to use DEC stuff with anything not made my DEC.

When I was working at Oberlin College we wanted to try connect our VMS
system to BITNET, DecNET, the computer science UNIX machine, etc.
After trying a few things that didn't work so well we put up PMDF, and
found it was a VERY useful mailer.  It hooks up very nicely with JNET,
with many different TCP/IP implementations, with UNIX machines running
PMDF, CMDF, or MMDF (all of which are more or less free, I think), with
the Macintosh running MacPMDF (MacPMDF does lack a very good mail reader but
the one provided is useable), other VMS machines running PMDF over DecNET,
and probably others I forgot to mention.  So for mail anyway, this is
probably the solution to any woes.

VMS PMDF is available for a distribution fee ($50 last I heard) from Ned
Freed (ned@ymir.bitnet)

MacPMDF is available from me for a $20 distribution fee.  (If you ask I'll
tell you more about what it can and can't do.  It's not as versatile as
VMS PMDF)

Jim Kingdon
sjk9187@oberlin (bitnet)
jkingdon%nomelle.oberlin.edu@vb.cc.cmu.edu (internet)