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THE DFWLUG DECUS ORIENTED BBS
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|  ______  | THE DFWLUG                                  BBS: (214) 270-3313 
| / ---- \ | Chartered since 1982                             (214) 270-5383 
|  |    |  | Celebrating Over 11 Years of DECUS     
| \ ____ / | in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas             
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 ----------  E-mail: dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org 			  
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                The DFWLUG is the Local Users Group for the 
              Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS)


                    THE DFWLUG DECUS ORIENTED BBS

 | NEWS | DECUS | E-MAIL | FREEWARE | DIGITAL | SHAREWARE | ALPHA AXP | 

        
        We've upgraded to the VAXstation 4000/90 72MHz Processor!
                   "The Fastest BBS in Dallas"

      The NEW AT&T Paradyne "Dataport" 14400 Baud Modem is in too!
        
        

The DFWLUG hosts a semiprivate OpenVMS BBS for use by it's membership, 
we currently are using VMS 5.5-2, POSIX or DCL shells, DECUS FREEWARE, 
CDROMS and have over three GIGAbytes of storage dedicated to industry 
information, Alpha AXP 64-bit computing, OpenVMS, Unix-OSF/1, 
MSDOS/Windows/Windows NT and providing net access for our membership.

The DFWLUG BBS also hosts multiple phone lines and currently supports 
V.32 and V.42bis (9600 and 14400 baud) modems.

The DFWLUG BBS has been in continuous operation since 1991 and is one
of the few DECUS oriented BBS's in the United States.

We provide a menu-driven and command shell environment that features:

 *Individual  Private Accounts and directories
 *VAXnotes    Local Conferencing  
 *USEnetNEWS  1400+NEWSgroups Internet Distributed Conferencing 
 *DECUS UUCP  For E-Mail communications anywhere on the Internet 
 *Files       Upload and Download with Kermit X/Y Modem, or Reflections
 *Indexes     And locations of all the DECUS Software Libraries 
 *Internet    Network Fileservers access (via E-mail) 
 *DFWLUG      Local Fileserver  (100MBs and growing)
 *Access to   DCL and/or the Posix/krn Shell
 *Editors     We provide EDT, TPU, TECO, and vi editor choices

Programs, source code and binary files for all models of computer systems  
are distributed world wide via USEnet NEWS in a variety of standard encoding 
formats (Primarily UUENCODED).  Sources for UUENCODE and UUDECODE are 
available on our local Fileserver. 

The USEnet NEWS expiration on source and binary file NEWSgroups on the 
DFWLUG BBS is 12 months.  This assures capture and the ability to extract 
all of the posted program parts even if they take several days/weeks to be 
posted from the source. 

The DFWLUG BBS offers the news readers selected Newsgroups from alt, austin, 
comp, dfw, news, rec, sci,tx and vmsnet news hierarchies for over 1400+ 
choices and over 800MBytes of online news, programs and tools (you just 
can't read it all;-) 

C-Kermit, X/Y modem, and Reflections protocols are supported for upload and 
download.

In addition to 1400+ Newsgroups and extended archives, the DFWLUG BBS has 
set up a permanent Fileserver for many files of interest to our members. 

Membership in the DFWLUG and attending our User Group meetings has always 
been free but a private account for the BBS is a modest $10.00 per year 
and available to students and professionals in the DFW area. 

Accounts may be obtained at one of the monthly meetings that take place 
every second Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm at the Digital ACT (702-4400) 
in Dallas TX.  Or contact the DFWLUG Membership Coordinator David Cathey
davidc@montagar.com (214)618-2117.

For more information and brief access to USEnet NEWS via DECUS's ANUnews
Newsreader, you may dial-in into our public account:

(214) 270-3313 1200 -  9600 Baud 8/n/1  V.32         (Digital DF296 Modem)
(214) 270-5383  300 - 14400 Baud 8/n/1  V.42/V.42bis (AT&T Dataport Modem)

Use INFO as a user name...

See you on the Net...

The DFWLUG