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From: fderavi@cybavax.UUCP (F. Deravi)
Newsgroups: net.lan,net.wanted
Subject: Fusion -Software without Support
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 19:14:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 19:14:31 1985
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Organization: University College Swansea, Wales
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Keywords: Ethernet,XNS,Help.
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We have two Codata microcomputers connected by ethernet. These run
Fusion Release 2.0; by Network Research Corporation.

Fusion provides a number of utilities : send,recv,rlogin,...
And also a "Fusion Programmer's library". These are library routines
for implementing process-to-process communication (using sockets and XNS
protocols).

The Problems:
		- the utilities hang up every now and then. For example
		  in the middle of an rlogin  the connection is lost and
		  zombie processes can not be removed.

		- the documentation on the library routines is poor. There
		  are no example programmes. We would like to rewrite the 
		  utilities but the information is not there.

		- we only have pre release-2.0 include files.

		- when we complain to our supplier in this country, they
		  say that a new release with proper documentation is
		  forthcoming. They have been saying that for a long time.

We would be interested to hear from other users of Fusion. In
particular the following would be of interest:

		- experience in writing programmes using Fusion libraries
		- new/better documentation for Fusion stuff
		- UUCP or real address of NRC.
		- Information on release 3 of Fusion
 		- experience in interfacing Fusion and UUCP

Please reply by mail.

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