RMAIL IS A GENERALIZED PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING A USER AN ENVIRONMENT TO SEND MAIL OVER MULTIPLE NETWORKS, WITHOUT THE NEED TO SPECIFY THE REMORTE NETWORK, NODE, DOMAIN, OR USERNAME. A PREVIOUS VERSION (0.X) WAS PUBLISHED AT THE MAY 1988 SYMPOSIUM. IT HAD A NUMBER OF BUGS, AND HAD NOT IMPLEMENTED THE MENU STRUCTURE. IT WAS ALSO DRIVEN BY THE SPAWN COMMAND AND A NUMBER OF COMMAND PROCEDURES RATHER THAN THE CURRENT VERSIONS (1.2) SHARABLE IMAGE. PROGRAM IS WRITTEN FOR VMS 4.7 OPERATING SYSTEM, PROBABLY WILL WORK WITH VMS 4.6, AND MAY WORK WITH OPERATING SYSTEMS AS EARLY AS VMS 4.3. WOULDN'T WANT TO BET ON VMS 4.0 - VMS 4.2... PROGRAM DEFINITELY WILL NOT RUN UNDER VERSION 5.X BECAUSE OF MAIL SYSTEM CHANGES, AND INCOMPATIBILITIES. BASIS OF PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE A USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE (MENUS) OR TO ALLOW THE GUNG-HO INDIVIDUAL TO DO HIS OWN COMMANDS. I'VE TRIED TO MAKE ALL THE COMMANDS SIMPLE AND EASY TO USE. NOT ALL MENU OPTIONS HAVE BEEN EMPLIMENTED AS COMMAND INSTRUCTIONS. THE PROGRAM UTILIZES A CENTRALIZED SHARED COMMON DATA STRUCTURE, WHICH HAS A SERIES OF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LIFENET USERDB DIRECTORY FOR THOSE PROGRAMS. =================================================================== THE FOLLOWING JOB LOGICALS ARE REQUIRED FOR EACH USER: LOC_RMAIL SPECIFIES THE LOCATION OF DISTRIBUTION LIST, AND THE WHERE TEMPORARY TRANSMITAL FILES ARE RETAINED. LOC_SCR A SCRATCH DIRECTORY FOR TEMPORARY FILES. LOC_DOC A DIRECTORY FOR DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE TO TRANSMITTED. LOC_DEL A DIRECTORY USED BY THE MOVFILE FUNCTION, WHICH DELIVERS DOCUMENTS ACCROSS USER DIRECTORY STRUCTURES. THE FOLLOWING SYSTEM LOGICAL NEEDS TO BE DEFINED: LIFE_DISTR A DIRECTORY INDICATING LOCATION OF SYSTEM LEVEL DISTRIBUTION LIST, AND OTHER SUPPORT FILES. REMMAIL$HLP LOCATION OF RMAIL HELP FILE REMMAIL.HLB =================================================================== THE FOLLOWING FILES NEED TO BE LOCATED AS INDICATED: NAME_SHARE.EXE TO SYS$SHARE AND INSTALLED AS SHARABLE, WRITABLE. REM_SHR.EXE TO SYS$SHARE AND INSTALLED.