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From: hughes@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
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Subject: Re: INCA release date question (DEC maint product)
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Date: 14 Feb 90 14:01:06 GMT
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In article <3370.25d7d1f0@fps.mcw.edu> brodie@fps.mcw.edu writes:
>At the last DECUS symposium, I was party to a small demo of what
>was (then) called 'INCA', which was a system that DEC has set up for
>sites with RSC boxex to be able to log calls and also search the DSIN
>database all from your LOCAL site.   You do things like send a message
>to INCA%xxxxx% and your field service call is automatically logged, and
>you get a response inside of two minutes with a log# (on your mail file).
>
>Now for the question.... does ANYONE know when this is supposed to be
>released for the general user community?   We were told at the time that
>it would be availbale "1st quarter" to all current VAXSIM users with an
>RSC box.  (i.e., most of us..)
>
>anyone heard rumors of release times?

My understanding is that INCA was recently renamed to DSNlink when
it came out of beta.  It should be available Real Soon Now, if not
Right Now.

We were a beta site, and found this service very valuable.

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