In article <1rf3dgINNhr7@snoopy.cis.ufl.edu> jb@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Jean-Gael Bakalemian) writes:
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>Third, is anyone successfully using a High Speed Modem (ie. 9600+) for
>communicating with a Main Frame via LINUX?  Doing such tasks as piping mail, etc.
>I would like to use my modem as a Pseudo-Bridge, but does UUCP or the such allow
>for such functions (maybe I am asking the wrong question, but I think I worded it
>right)?

Since you brought it up, I have written a suite of programs to let a
Linux host send and receive mail and news through a user account on a
well-connected mainframe (that is, without uucp priv's, without
pestering the remote sysad, etc.)  There are still a few bugs, and no
docs, but I plan on releasing it soon.

It supports multiple users on the Linux host, each of whom gets their
own mail, even though the rest of the world doesn't know they are on
the Linux machine, or even that it exists.

[I hope I'm answering the right question.]

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
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 cnc  Bosnia, Europe. 1993.     And around these, in a larger circle of  pain
 cnc  HOW MANY MORE?          and time,  are scattered two  hospitals and one
                          cemetery.   But the young woman who was  buried  in
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      lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant  country incorporates
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