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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jim wrote 2014-02-25 20:07:
> 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
>

VMS_SHARE it is/was ! :-)