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In article <1992Aug13.110313.982@dragon.com>, cts@dragon.com writes:
> There is a discussion now taking place on DECUServe in the DECUSERVE_FORUM
> notefile regarding a News <> DECUServe gateway.
> 
> The evolving thread seems to be heading to implementation in several
> phased steps, after which the results of the step would be evaluated
> before moving ot the next step.  My best guess right now that the most
> likly implementation would be read only groups for a couple conferences
> as pilots (assuming of course, that anything at all gets approved).
> 
> I'd like to start gathering current info on what notes-to-news software
> exists, and is in use.  
> 
> I'm aware of three;  one is a version done by Dec;  anyone know any 
> contacts?  I also am aware that someone did an implementation in
> Mumps;  I also have  crude version in DCL and FORTRAN.  I'd like to
> identify the best software to implement this, while looking to the
> future of possibly adding the ability for subscriber or general
> posts (not necessarily there now, but doable in the future).
> 
>   Charles
>   cts@dragon.com

George Carrette did one that converts the content of an extract/unseen to a
news batch.  I'm currently using it to produce a read only gateway for the
ISVNET notes files.  The source was posted to VMSNET.SOURCES.  I fixed a couple
of small problems (it needed to be able to deal with mail headers) and passed
the modified source back to George for reposting.

The tools needed are:

        news-to-notes (vmsnet.sources)
        deliver (ditto)
        Notes Extractor, initial population of notes files (command procedure)
        Notes Extractor, production tracking of notes files (command procedure)
        Mail connection between extractor and gateway.

The whole read only gateway took about 6 hours to put together, including a
fair amount of hand holding to do the initial uploading of the ISVNET notes
files.  If you want me to do it for you, let me know and I'll set it up.

Dick Munroe

p.s. If you are working in "conjunction" with DEC, you might want to take a
look at PAN (an internal production, Pete N Andy's notes tool) which might do
yeoman's service for the other direction of the gateway.
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