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From: michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB employee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: UNIX to VMS-MAIL
Keywords: mail VMS-MAIL
Message-ID: <375@wshb.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 21:59:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: WSHB, Christian Science Mon. Synd., Cypress Creek, SC
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Help.

I'm trying to find a way to automate sending and getting mail between an
SCO XENIX machine and a DEC VMS machine. The guys on the VMS end are very
tight with access to the machine and require me to figure out a way to
do everything by interfacing with the VMS MAIL utility. I've been trying to
figure out a way to use cu under the control of some input script but
find myself pretty much over my head. 

The problems as I see them are:
1: Turning control of cu over to another program after it is started. I
	can't figure out if this is a good idea even if it is possible.
	If it isn't then I would have to start cu with the standard input
	redirected to some control script. That leads to:

2: If I use something like awk or m4 ( neither of which I am good with )
	then I will have to set their input to the tail of some file I
	have tee'd out from cu. But that file won't exist until I start
	cu with tee.

I seem to be in a circular situation. I guess I could write something in
C which would work fine and run forever, but I'm not much of a C programmer
either. Mostly I get things working others have written, not write them
myself.

If anyone has any experience with this type of stuff some help would be
greatly appriciated.

As always, send e-mail and I'll summerize to the group.

-- 
Michael Batchelor -- Systems/Operations Engineer
WSHB - An International Broadcast Station of
          The Christian Science Monitor Syndicate, Inc.
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