[Info-vax] BITNET, was: Re: login information capture

Jim mckinneyj at saic.com
Tue Feb 25 14:07:14 EST 2014


On Monday, February 24, 2014 4:51:33 PM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Hunter Goatley wrote 2014-02-24 22:40:
> > My first 'net connection was via BITNET when I was at WKU. The first
> > version of my VMS Freeware Archive was a mail-based file server running
> > over BITNET (and gatewayed to the Internet). About a year after we got
> > online via BITNET (over a 9600-baud modem, no less!), we finally got a real
> > T1 connection to the state backbone....
> > Hunter
> 

> I was a "user" to that file server for many years.
> Realy clever where the mails was COM files with inline TPU
> scripts to rebuild the original file, if I'm not wrong (?).
> Just extract the parts from MAIL> and run with @.
> I think that there was a separate tool to do the
> extract and combine into one large file.
> 

VMS_SHARE ?

http://www.tmk.com/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms_share/vms_share.technical_info



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