Anybody besides us ever use Hptelex ?

Heard of Mail/3000, but never used it.  But we use our own email/message
program that is also written in Cobol.

Over the past 22 years it has sent messages to the outside world by methods
including integrating with Hptelex, transmitting to Western Union's Easylink
(via the old Telamon Network Engine, and printing for humans to stuff the
paper into a fax machine.

The Hptelex integration was the smoothest.  We wrote a message file telling it
what to send where, and it wrote another message file with the results.  When
the time came to have the 3000 send email directly, I wrote a command file to
read and write the same files and call the spiffy MAIL program (by Telamon /
Vytek / CalAmp) in between.  So the ghost of Hptelex is still a mainstay of
our communications.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Barnes" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:12
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Any old HP computer Pictures?



Curios if any one out there ever heard of; much less used a package
called.......

Mail/3000 ?

It was written in COBOL!  Sold at RUG conferences in the mid 1980's
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