VMS TCP/IP?

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Thu Aug 29 08:24:01 2002

If I remember right UCX was for VMS 4 or earlier I think.... I gotta do
some digging, I know I've got the Digital TCP Services CD someplace, I'll
look into the WASD webserver afterwards, it would be fun to check it out.
Thanks.


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Roberts" <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: VMS TCP/IP?


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curt Vendel" <curt_at_atari-history.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:00 AM
> Subject: VMS TCP/IP?
>
>
> > Besides Multinet and TCPware, are there any freeware TCP services for
VMS
> > 6.1 and higher???
>
> There is CMU/IP, freeware IP stack originally developed at Carnegie-Mellon
> Uni.
> Not sure what version it was in the end, 6.something I think, most things
> work ok with it, though it's a little slow.
> Rather buggy too, though perhaps less so than the versions of UCX that
were
> around at the time it was written.
> Haven't seen anything on it for a while, I think the support mailing list
is
> dead these days. I think there are still versions
> of it out there in use and a search of the web will find it for you
> somewhere.
> Open source so those with the skills could tinker with it, but it's
getting
> pretty old. Can't recall what language it was written in,
> I don't *think* it was c.
>
> UCX is available and comes on the VMS distribution these days, still a bit
> twitchy but
> better than it was, if you have the hobbyist VMS licence it covers it too
> IIRC.
>
> > Anyone have any experience with the Purveyor webserver for VMS?
>
> No, but WASD is freeware, and very well supported. We are a WASD beta
site
> and I know
> the developer personally, he telnets in to play with it on the Vax here.
> (Lives in Adelaide, just up the road, - about 140 miles)
> Really good. It doesn't like CMU though, we tried it early in the WASD
> development days
> and it did some very odd things to web pages that were completely cured by
a
> shift to Multinet...
>
> Works ok with Multinet, UCX (properly patched) and TCPWare. Still using
> Multinet 3.2 Rev B here. (OLD now)
> Available for Vax or Alpha. (Runs on Vax 6440 VMS 6.0 here).
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff in Oz
>
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