Copyright © 1993 by Eric M. LaFranchi.  All rights reserved.

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                     P A C K A S M   $ R E A D M E
                                   
                       Author: Eric M. LaFranchi
                            eric@emlsoft.com
                                    
                                 			       Version 2.1
    							        Sep 1993
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			  A B S T R A C T

PACKASM is a utility for extracting and assembling packages from VMSmail
and USENET news. News articles are extracted via NNTP or disk based ANUNEWS.
The PACKASM utility was created as a time saver because many users are
spending a lot of time manually unpacking packages. The PACKASM utility
should minimize that time.
     
To build the packasm executable the DCL command file BUILD_EXE.COM.

NNTP is supported via TCP and DECNET. The following TCP/IP packages are
supported:

		MULTINET -- TGV's multinet product.
		UCX	 -- Digital's TCP/IP services for OpenVMS
		TWG	 -- The Wollongong Group's TCP/IP product
		CMUIP	 -- Default TCP/IP package.
		TCPWARE	 -- Process Software's TCPWARE TCP/IP product
		FUSION	 -- Network Research's Fusion TCP/IP product

By default CMUIP TCP/IP is supported. If you want to use another TCP/IP
package to access an NNTP server, use one of the above names as an option
to the BUILD procedure.

Currently FUSION objects are not included