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From: cole@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Robert Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: questions
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Date: 2 Nov 88 13:01:49 GMT
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Reply-To: cole@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Robert Cole)
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 questions for NeXT gurus:

1.  NeXT Mail - It appears to be enhancements to UNIX Mail.  What
happens when you send mail to someone on another system and their system
is down?  Does the NeXT machine retry several times or just fail?  At
Educom, my dean asked questions about the mail system and was told that
you had to be logged into a mainframe and write your own interface for
the NeXT mail system to the mainframe.  It doesn't sound at all like it
looks!  Any true insights out there?

2.  Is there a "Digital Library Kit"?  Something that allows the user to
build his or her own digital library somewhat like the on-line docs?  I
have a faculty member who wants to put multi-megabytes of text on line
and reference it - can this be done with the library capabilities?

Robert Cole
cole@silver
cole@iubacs  bitnet
cole@gold.bacs.indiana.edu  internet