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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.minix,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Questions from the Soviets about UNIX
Message-ID: <8550@alice.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 19:42:19 GMT
References: <10031@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <10031@well.UUCP> crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) writes:
>
>    
>    I have a Soviet frind named Dima who has prepared a list of questions
>that I'm sure almost anyone might be able to answer.   This is the first
>list of questions from the Soviet Union that I am passing on for anyone
>to answer.
>...
>Here are Dima's questions:
>
>1.So we need information about  any software which makes it  possible to
>create  UNIXlike  networks  under  MSDOS.

The "MKS" toolkit provides most Unix commands for use  with MS-DOG.
PC-NFS allows MS-DOS machines to share files with Unix-systems that support
NFS using Ethernet.

>2.We've just  arranged Xenix  ver.2.0 for  PC AT.What  can we  do to try
>Telecommunications on it?

Read the information on uucp in the manuals (assuming you got them). 

>3.How is it possible to install 4 modems in one computer?Using Com 1,2,3,4?
>What multiplex board do we need(specification)?

Get SCO Xenix 2.3 if you want to use com 1-4. It won't work on old versions.
But SCO provides a list of multiplex boards that do work (using only one
com-interrupt) in there release notes and in their "directory".

>4. Please send us a technical documentation for FidoNet and UUCP with
>possibilities of this software and hardware support. Prices? 

Don't know about FidoNet, but all necessary info on UUCP should be in the
manuals. But it's all in English of course :-)

>We can use IBM PC/AT/XT, so have you any examples of usage this computers
>for such net which you describe in last message? 

SCO Xenix provides a simple mail network between Xenix systems. It is
called "micnet".

Communicating with the USSR (and other communist countries) may be somewhat
difficult because of the danger of "sensitive" information being send to
countries that are not supposed to have access to that information.

As far as I know Usenet does not officially have a status of a mail carrier
like the post office. If you send a letter with classified information to
the USSR the post office cannot be held responsible, but if you post a message
in a Usenet newsgroup that is broadcast to the USSR (assuming we would get
Usenet news readers in the USSR) it is feasible that Usenet can be held
responsible.

Paul.
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