Subject: VMS

From: [email-masked]
Date: 17 May 1993 10:59:05 -0700 (PDT)

I've got a number of users, who have access to the UNIX box at the local
university, who just love PINE; I've been impressed with what I've seen.
Unfortunately we are a VAX/VMS shop; sooooo, my question is to what 
extent anyone out there is working on a VMS port.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 93 08:31:46 +0000

I started looking at doing porting the Pine client program (*not* the imapd
server, which is non-trivial) to work with DEC's UCX software (now "TCP/IP
Services for VMS" (sic)).

I managed to get the c-client stuff to compile up with little bother and
successfully.  However I got floored by the screen management stuff and getting
sinlge keystrokes back (VAXC has a minimalist idea of what to provide for
compatibility in the way of Curses and/or Terminfo routintes)

Someone at Washington is rumoured to have some SMG code tucked away in an
archive somewhere that may be useful (if you know how to program with SMG!)

If anyone does get a Pine client working ON VAX/VMS (ideally over UCX from our
point of view) PLEASE let me know... We would really like this, as we could then
access our IMAP-served mailboxes on UNIX from our VAX/VMS systems.

                                Mike Brudenell
                                Systems Group
                                University of York Computing Service

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From: Earl Fogel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 09:33:29 -0600 (CST)

> compatibility in the way of Curses and/or Terminfo routintes)

I too would like to see a Pine client for VMS, and I can volunteer some
expertise in the screen management and keystroke areas (gained through
work on the VMS port of the gopher client software).

If you'ld like to collaborate on this, I can take what you've done so far,
and see how much further I can get. 

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Earl Fogel			Computing Services
[email-masked]			University of Saskatchewan

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 00:28:52 -0700 (PDT)

Innosoft has ported imapd to VMS.  I am curious why this is so difficult,
since imapd has no network knowledge and just uses stdio.  There's a few
UNIXisms in imapd, nothing really major.

Contact Ned Freed <[email-masked]> for more information.