Jeff wrote...

>The server side will be a pain.  Like many products (sendmail, NFS,
>Samba, nntp, pine, etc) we end up with a missing link which maps the
>traditional MPE jsname,user.acct,group to unix 8-byte userID/password
>and home directory.  This is a "global" piece in the way of many ports
>[IMHO].

Yes, indeed. One of the problems that I have is just understanding why
this sort of thing is a problem in the first place. ;)


>Perhaps people interested in developing these ports should have an
>offline mailing list.  We had FREEVT3K before, perhaps I could rename
>it and we use it for general porting efforts; though I know Randy and
>Telamon have Listserv as well and might prefer to host there (since
>Randy has the most recent VT3K code after Dan Hollis' move).  Whatever
>you guys want.  We can bring in javaVM folks and Gnu/perl/nettime/etc
>too.

I think that this thread and others are of such potential benefit to the
entire HP3000 community, that it is worth keeping the threads going on
this List server.

Neil

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