Archive-Date: XXX, 4 Dec 1994 14:36:14 GMT Subject: Looking for SMTPMail Server for Mac Message-ID: <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> From: James Houssen Date: 4 Dec 1994 14:36:14 GMT Could some one tell me where I can get a mail server for my Mac? I am going on a direct connect Jan 1 and I want to provide a internet mail service as well as the other common services. Thanks Jim ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 5 Dec 1994 02:52:34 GMT Subject: Re: Looking for SMTPMail Server for Mac Message-ID: From: krajala@iac.net (Keith Rajala) Date: 5 Dec 1994 02:52:34 GMT References: <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> I have been using MailShare and find it to be quite Mac friendly. Minimal set-up time and a dream to use. There is even a limited listserv capability, but I haven't experimented with that yet. I don't remember where I got it, but I'll bet your friendly Info-Mac mirror would carry it. Keith Rajala krajala@iac.net @@@even my .sig is under construction@@@ ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:35:48 GMT Subject: Re: Looking for SMTPMail Server for Mac Message-ID: From: dm_devaney@pnl.gov (Mike DeVaney) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 16:35:48 GMT Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News) References: <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> In article <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca>, James Houssen wrote: Could some one tell me where I can get a mail server for my Mac? I am going on a direct connect Jan 1 and I want to provide a internet mail service as well as the other common services. Look for MailShare version 1.0b8 or later. This can be found anon ftp in comm/tcp/mail/ in the info-mac archives, either sumex-aim.stanford.edu or one of its mirrors - I use ftp.hawaii.edu/mirros/info-mac I've had very good results with MailShare, which I have been using since late August with Eudora. -- ********************************************** * Mike DeVaney, Pacific Northwest Laboratory * * dm_devaney@pnl.gov, (509) 375-2435 * ********************************************** ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 8 Dec 1994 05:14:11 GMT Subject: Re: Looking for SMTPMail Server for Mac Message-ID: <3c64n3$d76@nntp.crl.com> From: Jim King Date: 8 Dec 1994 05:14:11 GMT References: <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> > In article <3bsk4u$sd7@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca>, James Houssen > wrote: > Could some one tell me where I can get a mail server for my Mac? I am going on > a direct connect Jan 1 and I want to provide a internet mail service as well > as the other common services. Someone else suggested MailShare, and I agree. For an excellent look at how to set up MailShare as well as all your other Internet resources, try: http://web66.coled.umn.edu/ This is a great resource set up by the University of Minnesoda College of Education, and includes tutorials and links to all the resources you need to set up your site using a Mac. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 8 Dec 1994 19:29:25 GMT Subject: looking for a newsreader for our vax Message-ID: <3c7mql$u4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> From: zweigle@julian.uwo.ca (k.a. zweigle) Date: 8 Dec 1994 19:29:25 GMT I am looking for a newsreader for our vax that is easy to use, easy to setup and already compiled! Does it exist? Please help. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 14 Dec 1994 22:13:23 GMT Subject: Re: looking for a newsreader for our vax Message-ID: <3cnqm3$cer@eco.twg.com> From: mike@vishnu.eco.twg.com (This space intentionally left blank) Date: 14 Dec 1994 22:13:23 GMT References: <3c7mql$u4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> In article <3c7mql$u4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, zweigle@julian.uwo.ca (k.a. zweigle) writes: > >I am looking for a newsreader for our vax that is easy to use, easy to setup >and already compiled! Does it exist? Please help. I have one that I like, but it is probably not a good choice for non-technical users (i.e. hackers will love it, programmers will have little trouble with it, but drag your Mom away from baking apple pies and she will probably tie herself into a ball with it). It's based on TPU, with a small C program to act as the communications link. Some info from the doc file: 1 CREDITS This newsreader setup was created from NEWS.TPU and NEWSREADER.C, an EVE-based newsreader and news server communication program, both by Keith Lewis (klewis@mitre.org). Additional features, editing, and comments were added, and additional doc and the config procedure written, by Mike Bartman of The Wollongong Group (mike@eco.twg.com). 2 INTRODUCTION TPU-NewsReader (TNR) is a TPU-based Usenet News reader system. It allows posting, reading and responding to messages in Usenet Newsgroups. It will also allow responses to articles to be sent, or copies of articles to be forwarded, through mail. TNR is not a news server, just a news reader. You must have a nntp news server on a system accessable to the system you are running TNR from and your system must be configured to allow access to the nntp server. 3 REQUIREMENTS FOR USE o You must be running OpenVMS o Your system must support EVE o Your news server must support the XHDR command. TNR supports taglines, signatures, and e-mail (Pony Express, though you can change this to whatever mailer you use by changing the relevent TPU code). It will provide you with a list of groups available from your news server and let you pick the ones you want with a single control-char. You can "unsubscribe" jsut as easily. It supports threads by following postings with identical subject lines, and can sort all current messages in a group to make deleting a thread easy. The C program comes built into an EXE, and as and OBJ that you can re-link if necessary. The source is included as well if you have a C compiler and need to recompile it. The newsreader itself is TPU source, and instructions on how to install it are in the doc file. Once you have the TPU section built, and a couple of logicals and symbols set up, all you have to do is invoke it with a single command and go at it in the newsgroups. I like it better than other readers since I have all the power of TPU while I'm reading. I can format, import, export, sort, etc. and extend it as needed, even in the middle of a session. I have multiple buffers, can pull neat lines out of messages and add them to a tag file, or use FIND to locate relevent parts of a message. I've been using it for nearly a year now, and I haven't found the need to add any additional features in over 6 months, so I think it does what it needs to do, at least for me. If you want a copy, you can grab it with anonymous FTP from ecovax.eco.twg.com in the [anonymous.pub] directory. TNRKIT.BCK is the backup saveset for those with VMODE support in their FTP clients. TNRKIT.HEX is a HEXIFIED (plain ASCII will work to transfer it) version of TNRKIT.BCK. DEHEX.MAR is in the same directory. Assemble and link DEHEX.MAR, then feed TNRKIT.HEX to it to get the TNRKIT.BCK file, then unpack and follow the DOC instructions. Let me know if you have any trouble. -- Mike "Come and get it!" Bartman -- ============================================================================== | I didn't really say all the things that I said. You probably didn't read | | what you thought you read. Statistics show that this whole thing is more | | than likely just a hideous misunderstanding. | ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Christians do it with grace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 16 Dec 1994 13:34:46 -0400 From: volz@process.com (Bernie Volz) Subject: Re: looking for a newsreader for our vax Message-ID: <1994Dec16.133446.881@process.com> Date: 16 Dec 94 13:34:46 -0400 References: <3c7mql$u4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> In article <3c7mql$u4@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, zweigle@julian.uwo.ca (k.a. zweigle) writes: > I am looking for a newsreader for our vax that is easy to use, easy to setup > and already compiled! Does it exist? Please help. > Here's a good summary of some of the NNTP software available. It comes from the UCX "FAQ" (Frequently Asked Questions). All of this software either directly supports TCPware or does so via the TCPware UCX emulation. - Bernie Volz 3.12) NNTP clients and servers NNTP is the protocol used to transfer Usenet news over TCP/IP links. The most common package seems to be ANU News, which is available as part of the DECUS UUCP distribution. It has a UCX client but no server. A multithreaded ANU NNTP server for UCX was posted to news.software.anu-news by Steve Bour, jsbour@ualr.edu. It can be obtained via anonymous FTP from ualret.ualr.edu in the /pub/anu-news directory. Another news reader is the aptly named NEWSRDR package by Matt Madison and MadGoat Software. It is available via anonymous FTP from public.tgv.com in the [.madison.newsrdr] subdirectory. It's also available from ftp.spc.edu:[.MACRO32.SAVESETS] and ftp.wku.edu:[.MADGOAT]. Joel Snyder's VNEWS package also supports UCX (and also other TCP packages such as MultiNet, Wollongong, Process Software, CMU/Tek as well as DECnet) as a news transport. A Fortran compiler is required. VNEWS is available via anonymous ftp from arizona.edu in the directories [.software.vms.vnews...]. It is being maintained by Joel Snyder (jms@arizona.edu), so questions and bug reports should go to him. VMS NEWS is from Bernd Onasch (bernd@rzsun2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de or Onasch@askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de). It's apparently a threaded news reader and is available from ftp.spc.edu:[.UCX]NEWS_125.SHARE. DXRN/MXRN (X Windows readers for DECwindows and DECwindows/Motif) support UCX as well. Both programs are built from the same source files. It is available via anonymous FTP from decuac.dec.com as file /pub/DEC/dxrn.share. This is a VMS-SHARE format file. Contact Rick Murphy (murphy@burfle.dco.dec.com) for more information. BULLETIN from Mark London (mrl@pfc.mit.edu) contains a news reader client. Send INFO to bulletin@pfc.mit.edu for a description of BULLETIN. FNEWS is basically a mixture of NEWSRDR and ANU-NEWS, providing a somewhat different full-screen interface and quick response to all groups. It can be found in the pub/fnews/vms directory on zephyr.grace.cri.nz. Contact Chris Pugmire (Chrisp@grace.cri.nz) for more information. ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 12 Dec 1994 21:04:04 -0600 Subject: Where do you get TCP/IP? Message-ID: <3cj2v4$13e@FileShop.COM> From: msiegle@FileShop.COM (Michael Siegle) Date: 12 Dec 1994 21:04:04 -0600 Keywords: tcp/ip Could anyony tell me where I could get the TCP/IP for DOS? I heard that there is an InterNet site somewhere that has it, but I don't know which one. If you know where, please e-mail me at the address listed below. Michael Siegle msiegle@fileshop.com ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 9 Dec 1994 14:21:38 GMT Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses for same physical machine/interface? Message-ID: From: mark.benson@mcl.co.uk (Mark Benson) Date: 9 Dec 1994 14:21:38 GMT References: <3c6saa$kn4@cambridge.village.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3c6saa$kn4@cambridge.village.com>, gjc@cambridge.village.com (George Carrette) wrote: > Can tcpware support a machine having multiple IP addresses > but only one ethernet board? Yes, using a facility which Process calls a "secondary address". As I understand it, this is an address on the same subnet as the normal address of the interface. Sorry, I don't know enough about WWW to say whether this mechanism helps in your case. Mark Benson +44 1925 702494 (voice) +44 1925 700716 (fax) mark.benson@mcl.co.uk ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:26:12 GMT Subject: BGdriver vs TCPdriver Message-ID: <1994Dec22.162612.1@prduct.logica.co.uk> From: james@galaxy.logica.co.uk (james 'jimbob' Roberts) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 16:26:12 GMT Sender: news@carmen.logica.co.uk (News Manager Account) Hi, At the moment we are about to start implementing a TCP/IP service for an existing (VAX based) product. We have decided that the best TCP/IP implementation to use is TCPware for OpenVMS. This leaves us with a choice of programming interface: sockets, TCPdriver and the BGdriver. The main issues are reliability, continued maintainace and ease of use of the interface product. Portability of code across platforms is not an issue, as the base product is not portable. Therefore, we have discounted the sockets interface (as recommended in the TCPware programming manual) Is there any particular reason to pick the BGdriver over the TCPdriver, or vice-versa? James Roberts ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 22 Dec 1994 20:24:06 GMT Subject: Re: BGdriver vs TCPdriver Message-ID: <3dcn96$f9p@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> From: MyTH@ucx.lkg.dec.com (M. T. Hollinger) Date: 22 Dec 1994 20:24:06 GMT Reply-To: MyTH@ucx.lkg.dec.com (M. T. Hollinger) References: <1994Dec22.162612.1@prduct.logica.co.uk> In <1994Dec22.162612.1@prduct.logica.co.uk>, james 'jimbob' Roberts writes: > Is there any particular reason to pick the BGdriver over the TCPdriver, or > vice-versa? The primary advantage of the UCX-compatible BGDRIVER is that everybody has one; your code would also be able to run with DEC TCP/IP Services or one of the other third-party TCP/IP products. If you're sure the application will never run over anything but TCPware, look over the two programming interfaces and decide which one you like better. They have comparable performance and functionality. - MyTH ================================================================================ Archive-Date: XXX, 29 Dec 1994 18:52:06 GMT Subject: RDB Database fine tuning Message-ID: <3dv0gm$t3c@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> From: MMCT77A@prodigy.com (Norman Wirtz) Date: 29 Dec 1994 18:52:06 GMT vmsnet.alpha RDB Database fine tuning MMCT77A@prodigy.com We run an operation on an RDB database for the payroll processing of over 25,000 people per week. The operation is home grown and feeds a Cyborg payroll system and an Accts Rec package from Ross Systems. The computer is a VAX 6610. When we are updating the data base our thruput slows to a crawl. We need help in fine tuning the data base's paramters to speed up performance. I am looking for suggestions, recommendations and/or the names of recommended consultants or compaines that specialize in this activity. Thanks in advance for your attention and help!