UNIX and DECNET

[Alan S. Watt]

Personally, I think the best way to gateway between VMS and UNIX
machines is to put an IBM machine in the middle :-).

We have a working VMS-UNIX mail link using an IBM 4341 VM/CMS
machine as "wire".  We look like another VM host; the VMS machine
looks like an RJE workstation. Everybody runs lots of shell and
DCL scripts to do format conversion.

Seriously, it does work (limited to 9600 baud by DUP-11), and most
of the software is either standard DEC program products, or Univeristy
software available for not much $$.

	UNIX-VM software:

		UREP
		Penn. State U.
		Cost: $150
		Contact:

			Robert M. Owens
			C.S. Dept., The Penn. State U.
	
I hear there's a VMS version of UREP as well.

	- Alan S. Watt