Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!jeh From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS news and uucp? Summary: Not yet, but soon! Keywords: uucp VMS netnews Message-ID: <2157@crash.cts.com> Date: 17 Dec 87 08:31:56 GMT References: <421@ddsw1.UUCP> Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) Distribution: na Organization: VMSnet Working Group, DECUS VAX SIG Lines: 14 In article <421@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes: >This may have been asked before, but I haven't seen it... we're interested >in getting a binary of news 2.11 for VMS (specifically for a MicroVax II) >and a means of transport over phone lines. The "VMSnet Working Group" within the VAX SIG of DECUS (I'm the chair of the w.g.) is developing such a beast. The dialup transport layer is John Gilmore and Lol Grant's `gnuucp' (they have it working under VMS with hardwired lines; some tweaks are necessary to support dialin/dialout). A test version should be ready to send out by the end of January; it will include a VMSmail interface, Geoff Huston [of ANU]'s NEWS for VMS, ported versions of smail and pathalias, and appropriate hooks, clamps, and glue. Watch this newsgroup for a full status report, to be posted within a week or so.