Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: What is dial-up-able Message-ID: <405@wet.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 21:26:59 GMT References: <1531@ns.network.com> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 34 In article <1531@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes: >This might be a bit to technical for this group, but I've always wanted >to know. I know that uucp transported news can be handled over dial-up >modems (I even wrote a BASIC language uucp clone) but I don't know how >those high speed direct connect internet links work. > >I've just heard from a guy looking to hook his VMS system into the net. >He mentioned a software package from Carnegie/Mellen that interfaced >VMS to TCP/IP? He wanted to know what else he needed to get news to >his VMS machine, like a modem? a direct connect line? I didn't know >what to tell him. "USENET is not UUCP" (repeat ad nauseum) USENET depends on something else for transport. What else? Anything that works. For VAX/VMS this usually means DECNET or TCP/IP, but is by no means limited to these. There are uucp implementations for VMS. What really matters is that you have some way of getting a news feed (i.e. you can both speak a common protocol). The Internet is a wonderful thing... if you can afford it. The University down the street has to fork over $40,000 to join BARRNET. Of course this serves hundreds of machines... There's a reason why "the Telebit alternative" is so popular. There are a number of TCP/IP implementations available for VAX/VMS. A complete list is available from the DDN Network Information Center (800) 235-3155, or FTPable from NIC.DDN.MIL as NETINFO:VENDORS-GUIDE.TXT (huge! it includes everything in the known universe.) Oh yeah... check out ANU-NEWS for VAX/VMS (you may want to wait for 5.9 though). -=EPS=-