Roger writes:
> FTP access has been vetoed as not being real-time enough.  I've
> considered NFS access and also a custom network application for remote
> file access.  Anybody have ideas on other methods or third-party
> products that might be of assisstance.
 
Quest's NFS has some extensions that allow a unix client to access a
message file on the 3000, but otherwise there is no feature of unix
or NFS that will give you anything like message file type features
over a network without writing some code (at least that I'm aware of).
 
The 'custom network applicaion' is probably the best solution if you
don't mind writing some sockets calls into your programs.  It's
really no more difficult than calling intrinsics to access message
files.  I'm sure one of our resident sockets gurus (Jim?) could
give you more info if you need it.  This would require that you have
code running on both systems of course.
 
You could use a tool that supports networking and runs on both MPE
and Unix (Perl, Python, etc.) to avoid writing any 'real code'.
 
G.