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- From: coates@uc780.umd.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,uk.misc,eunet.misc,alt.sex,alt.sources
- Subject: RE: Anyone heard of 'SoftSwitch'?
- Message-ID: <29JUN91.02412362@uc780.umd.edu>
- Date: 29 Jun 91 02:41:23 GMT
-
- In a previous article, rst@lucifer.UUCP (Richard Thombs) wrote:
- >Has anybody heard of a product called 'SoftSwitch'? It's an American
- >product and supposedly converts between a number of difference mail formats.
- >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > Richard
- >--
- >Richard Thombs Lucas Powertrain Systems,
- >Mail: rst@eg.lucasauto.co.uk Phoenix Way,
- >Phone: +44 285 657981 x233 Cirencester, GL7 1QG,
- >Fax: +44 285 658258 (G3) England.
-
- Softswitch is a gateway product which runs on an IBM mini or mainframe. It is
- a gateway which moves mail or documents from and to IBM systems such as DISOSS
- and LAN's with gateways to Softswitch central running on an IBM (IBM compatible)
- host It is a part of SNADS (SNA distributed somthing or other). SNADS main
- thing is that documents and mail are stored and forwarded, wheras in regular
- SNA the orientation is toward connctions beween physical units.
-
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