6 Sep
2015
6 Sep
'15
4:59 a.m.
I'm talking about the one on MIM - it has a really nice interface.
Sampsa
On 6 Sep 2015, at 03:58, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
Their are multiple versions of the MAIL-11 program for
RSX. One was written in MACRO-11. Another was written in BP2. I have not seen the
FORTRAN version. The BP2 version was used heavily by DEC Software Services. It started
out life on RSTS/E (written by Steven Reilly) and was ported to RSX (by Scott Blessley).
I worked in the same group with Scott in Maynard, MA.
-Steve
On Sep 5, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com> wrote:
Samosa,
The RSX-11 Mail system consists of 4 tasks as I recall. The ...MAI task that does most
of the interaction with the user is a pretty straight forward Fortran program. Then the
actually task that sends mail ...SEN is also a Fortran program. It communicates with the
MAL$$$ task which is written in BasicPlus2 and this is the most complicated program as it
accepts the various DECnet connections and stores the messages for retrieval by the ...MAI
task. Lastly, the MAL$$$ program connects to a MAL... task written in Fortran whose sole
job is to notify the user if they are logged in that they just got mail. This system was
written by DEC and put on one of the early RSX SIG tapes, but I remember seeing the files
also in a folder on ftp.update.uu.se which may be a better place to get the files as
I'm sure Johnny has updated and improved them.
As far as running on VMS, I would think it could be done. I don't know that you
would have to run RSX compatibility, but that might be easiest. With out it there are
probably a number of date/time routines that would need to be modified to work with VMS
time formats. The Fortran is probably quite easy to port but I don't know about the
Basic part. That said the RSX task sends email to VMS fine as I recall, but this is the
area I would think would be most difficult. Also, the way RSX stores in the email files
different than VMS a.
Johnny could probably provide a much better overview however.
Mark
> On Sep 5, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> Is it possibles to run the RSX-11 MAIL client on a VAX that has the RSX compatibility
module installed?
>
> Will it work alongside the normal VMS MAIL client?
>
> I'm asking because frankly the mail client on MIM is much nicer to use than the
standard VMS mail client..
>
> Sampsa
>