William Baker
	Ford Aerospace & Communication Corporation
	1322 Space Park Drive
	MS: B2C
	Houston, Texas  77058

	NASA Life Sciences Project
	NASA/JSC, Building 37
	MS:  SD
	Houston, Texas 77058

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GENERAL COMMENTS:

	The following set of command procedures and programs were written
	in order to support the NASA Life Sciences Division.  There purpose
	is to provide an environment where mail on the GTE/TELENET system
	(or any system using the GTE/TELENET mail protocol) can be read
	via a batch program and delivered to the users VAX mail or A1
	mail.  As such, logical outcomes of the project were programs to
	send mail to the TELEMAIL system, and to read bulletin boards
	on the TELEMAIL system.  The basic programs were written with the
	use of the DECUS VAXNET program as the seed program.  In fact many
	of the major modules still maintain 100% integrity with the latest
	version of VAXNET, leaving on 2 or 3 main driving routines that
	were added to make the system work.  As the source code is written
	now, only the modem control module needs to modified to allow
	this set of programs to be run outside the NASA/JSC telephone system.
	When the NASA/JSC phone system was recently brought into the 20th
	century, I decided not to try and support all the modem protocols
	that VAXNET currently supports.  However, since the calls to the
	modem module from the main program are fairly standard (and I beleive
	the same as what VAXNET uses) you should have no difficult in just
	substituting the VAXNET version of MODEM.FOR for my MODEM.FOR.

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	1.	READ SUBDIRECTORY:

		This subdirectory contains the source programs and the
		general structure needed by the TELEREAD set of programs
		to operate.  It contains 3 subdirectories beneath it.


		[.ARCHIVE] is used to store old telemail messages for
		a breif period of time in case they are needed for
		retrieval.  I usually allow for 5 versions of the log
		files for each user who is using the TELEREAD system.

		[.SCRIPTS] is used to store and to protect the usernames
		and passwords of users who the SYSTEM is reading mail.
		Only the designated account running the TELEREAD program
		and the system should have access to this subdirectory.

		[.SOURCE] is where the source of TELEREAD.EXE is located.


	2.	SEND SUBDIRECTORY:

		This subdirectory contains the source programs and the
		general structure needed by the TELESEND set of programs
		to operate.  It contains 1 subdirectory beneath it.

		[.SOURCE] is where the source of SENDTELE.EXE is located.


	3.	BULB SUBDIRECTORY:

		This subdirectory contains the source programs and the
		general structure needed by the TELEBULB set of programs
		to operate.  It contains 2 subdirectories beneath it.

		[.ARCHIVE] is used to store old bulletin messages for
		a breif period of time in case they are needed for
		retrieval.  I usually allow for 5 versions of the log
		files for each board being read by the TELEBULD program.

		[.SOURCE] is where the source of TELEBULB.EXE is located.


	4.	MRGATE SUBDIRECTORY:

		This subdirectory contains an un-supported interface for
		the TELESEND and the TELEREAD set of programs.  Use at
		your own risk...

		[.SOURCE] is where the source of NBSPARSE is located.


	5.	TEXT SUBDIRETORY:

		This subdirectory contains the text of some mail messages
		that the TELESEND, TELEREAD, and TELEBULB systems use to
		inform end users and/or the SYSTEM of the programs status.

	6.	DOC SUBDIRECTORY:

		Minimal documentation on how to install the programs on
		your system.  You may have to look through the command
		procedures to be sure that my documentation isn't out
		of date with the procedure.  I've made a few updates and
		changes in philosophy since I originally compiled these
		documentation files.