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From: Warwick Jackson
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Subject: RE: VMS NEWS & PMDF interfacing????
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>        We are currently running JNET V3.3 & PMDF V3.0-?? on our VAX VMS V5.0-2
>system.  We are in the process of setting up NEWS for our node.  How can I
>interface NEWS with PMDF??  I couldn't find an answer do far.  Any help is very
>much appreciated.

It is very easy. One thing that news can do is read the pmdf queue files which
means you do not have to first put the newsitems into a VMS mail file and then
extract them.

What I have done is to create an alias entry for a user as follows

    netnews:    netnews@news.action

In the pmdf configuration file you put an entry as follows

    news.action        $u@news.action

    action_news 822 slave
    news.action

Pmdf queues all the news batches for the channel action_mail. Once a day I
submit a batch job to update the news system.

$    ! Extract the new mail received and place it in the news system
$
$    news/noscreen
add file/delete pmdf_root:[queue]action_*.00

Another way of doing this is to create a news channel in the master.com file
which does the update when news batches are received. This would require the
removal of the slave option from the channel definition.

Warwick Jackson            Tel:        +61-3-690-3811
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Victoria, Australia.