Miscellaneous VM/CMS Software Packages

If you pick up any of this, I'd like to know. There's no charge, but please send me a note so that I'll know who has it, especially if you're actually using it. Thanks!

• WEBCAT for VM/CMS is available in VMARC and TAR forms,
  and for UNIX (POSIX) is available in TAR + GZip and plain TAR forms.

• CMS HTTPD (Webshare)
  is available in VMARC form from Beyond Software, Inc.

• CMS Gopher 2.4 (formerly aka: "Rice CMS Gopher")
  is available in VMARC or TAR package format.
  (updates to this pending developments in CMS HTTPD above)
  CMS Gopher 2.5 client only is available in VMARC and TAR forms.

• CMS TAR v2 (the Pipelined version)
  is available in VMARC or TAR package format.

• UFT Unsolicited File Transfer (Internet SENDFILE)
  is available in VMARC or TAR package format.
  And there's now a POSIX (UNIX) version. Finally, Thanks to Thomas Riemer for including a UFT/SIFT page in his Internet pages.

• MSG Internet TELL (for CMS and ASCII POSIX (UNIX))
  is available in VMARC or TAR package format.

• Finger client and server
  available as VMARC or TAR package format.

To "deblock" a VMARC file, enter a command like:

PIPE < in_fileid | FBLOCK 80 00 | > out_fileid F 80

To "deblock" a blocked MODULE, enter a command like:

PIPE < in_fileid | DEBLOCK CMS | > out_fileid

CMS TAR files need no "deblocking".

If you need a blocked VMARC MODULE, with which you can unpack properly restructured VMARCs (archives), get it from here or from http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/software/vmarc.modcms and "deblock it" using DEBLOCK CMS as illustrated above.

The name "rickvmsw" is an pun. There was a sub-menu on Rice's VM gopher server called "ricevmsw". The packages listed above represent pretty much the same suite of applications, but they have no dependency on, or obligation to, Rice University.

The following things are not my code. (nor is VMARC)
They're wonderful, but I can't take any credit for them.

The mainframe is such an obvious choice for a Mail drop because it is secure, available all the time, is backed up, protected by UPS, has enormous I/O capacity ... I could go on and on.
-- Jane Dearing

• REXX/Sockets, without which none of my stuff would work,
  available in VMARC or TAR form.
  (retrieved from LISTSERV at CUNYVM on 1994-Aug-11)

• VMGIF, by Ton Hospel at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  available via its own VMGIF web page.

• TRACK, by Ross Fried at City University of New York
  available via FTP along with many other VM Workshop contributions.

• TALK for CMS, available in VMARC or TAR form.
  (retrieved from LISTSERV at CUNYVM on 1994-Sep-21)

• POP3 server for VM, available as individual files from uriacc.uri.edu, and now also available in VMARC format.