Re: Internet mail is working!

["James D. Stallings" <jim@mcws.net>]

Another thing Guys!!

You can send your programs via EMAIl to your account.  This is the REAL EASY
way.  If you have source, simply send it to your account on the sim.  It will be
stored in the MESSAG.TXT, so you can use teco to edit and save your BASIC
program!

Thanks Alan and Gary!!



Alan Flippen wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> You can now send e-mail through the Internet to the RSTS simulator! Here's
> how:
>
> (1) Address the e-mail to mailrsts@mcws.net and begin the subject line with
> the PPN or PPNs you are sending to, followed by a space and then the actual
> subject line. Examples:
>
> [1,53] Greetings from the Internet
> 1,53 This is another way to do it
> (1,47);(1,17);(1,53) You can send to multiple accounts this way
>
> As you can tell, PPNs can have parentheses, square brackets or no
> delimiters; use a semicolon to separate multiple PPNs; a space is the
> delimiter between PPNs and subject. Attachments to e-mail are not supported.
>
> (2) When you log onto the simulator, type RUN$MAICHK to check your e-mail.
> This program does two things: (a) polls the simulator for Internet mail and
> distributes it to all recipients; (b) then prints your MESSAG.TXT file.
> Step (a) can take 5 or 10 seconds if there's a lot of mail, so be patient.
>
> Please let me know if there are any problems. Once I'm sure the program
> works correctly, I'll modify LOGIN to chain to it so you can download your
> mail automatically.
>
> Next step: enable RSTS to send e-mail to the Internet.
>
> Thanks to Gary Luckenbaugh and Jim Stallings for handling the Linux end of
> things.
>
> Cheers,
> Alan



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