RE: Re: upcoming talks about hercules
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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: 16 April 2019 21:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hercules-390] Re: upcoming talks about hercules > > ---In [email protected], <jbaten@...> wrote : > > > Since I could not find a mention about the FreeXA initiative I thought > > I mention it here as well: > > https://geronimo370.nl/freexa/ > > This link says: > > "we revived a new VNET-type network of mainframes" > > This is the first I've heard of people linking our MVS 3.8j systems in a > network. How do I join, what is the file transfer mechanism > (kermit?) Not Kermit. VNET was basically IBMs internal name for its RSCS network so equivalent to BITNET/EARN in function as previously described.. It extends the spool so you can send files as previously described. No idea if/how it works on MVS. On VM everyone has a virtual reader, so files arrive on the reader. To send you tag the file with the name of the remote node and userid you want to send to and spool it the RSCS machines reader. There was also a facility to send remote commands > and can it exchange the equivalent of newsgroups, and do we have > newsgroup reading software available? No reading software. Its basically individual files. > > Thanks. Paul. > Dave