Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Unix and DECNet - (nf) Message-ID: <5455@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 23:47:58 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5455 Posted: Tue Feb 7 23:47:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:44:49 EST Lines: 28 #R:sri-arpa:-1623400:uokvax:6100018:000:970 uokvax!jab Feb 5 21:18:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.unix / sri-arpa!lauren@rand-unix / 6:42 pm Feb 2, 1984 */ While there's nothing available to run DECNet on Unix, my VMS UUCP will allow your Unix system to communicate easily with your VMS systems, thusly avoiding the "island" effect you fear. It also will let your VMS sites communicate with other UUCP sites if you'd like. The current plan is for DEC to distribute this software, by the way. --Lauren-- /* ---------- */ Before I start cheering for the VMS "uucp", which can hopefully make some of life a little easier for some friends STUCK with VMS, let me ask the all-important question: If DEC is going to distribute it, what's in it for them? How much will it cost? It wouldn't be very nice if DEC charged $5000 for a "new dialup-network facility" that turned out to be Lauren's uucp. (This isn't a shot at Lauren, but a reply hoping that the VMS "uucp" is available to [poor] universities at moderate cost.) Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL