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VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2
    INDEX (in this issue)
   
PAGE 1   * The next DFWLUG meeting Info and Map (February 14th, 1994)
PAGE 2   * AlphaServer 2100 takes Datamation's "SERVER OF THE YEAR" AWARD
PAGE 3   * NetRider SW on DECservers supports TCP/IP, IPX, and Appletalk dialup
PAGE 4   * Internet - Overhyping the Internet: Where's the beef?
PAGE 5   * Digital - Unveils new disk drives for PC network, UNIX environments
PAGE 6   * Digital - Signs software resale agreements with Microsoft, Lotus
PAGE 7   * DFWLUG STAFF CONTACT INFO
PAGE 8   * DFWLUG Internet WEBserver and BBS Info
PAGE 9   * Digital's Support Information
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2/14/95  -- >>>>>> The DFWLUG February meeting agenda is as follows:

The DFWLUG Internet BBS and WEBserver

The DFWLUG BBS is upgrading to full Internet access and is also sponsoring
an Alpha-based World-Wide-WEBserver with archives, software and information 
for Digital minded customers!

Come and see the NEW and improved DFWLUG BBS and bring your questions about
the Internet and our place in the vast cyber sea;-)

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*MEMBERSHIP*

THE DFWLUG is holding it's yearly membership drive.  If you signed up 
over 1 year ago for the BBS or haven't checked your membership status
in a while, please take a minute and check with our Membership Coordinator
David Cathey (davidc@montagar.com or 214-578-5036) to verify your continued 
membership with the DFWLUG.

Membership forms for DECUS and the DFWLUG are available at our regular meetings or log-on to our Electronic BBS system INFO 
or on-line on our BBS at 214-270-3313 or on-line the World-Wide WEB at URL 
http://www.montagar.com/dfwlug/ the DFWLUG's homepage!

The DFWLUG Steering committee encourages you join DECUS and the DFWLUG.  
Membership for both is free of charge and will put you on our mailing 
list for our technical newsletter.  

Members of the DFWLUG may then participate in the DFWLUG Internet BBS
with private E-mail accounts, 3300 USEnet newsgroups, Internet services
and much more.  The price for this service is $10.00 per year.


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 AlphaServer 2100 TAKES "SERVER OF THE YEAR" AWARD
 
 In a double coup, DATAMATION magazine readers and DATAMATION editors 
 this month selected Digital's award-winning AlphaServer 2100 as "Server 
 of the Year". The annual Products of the Year Awards, published in this 
 month's issue, highlight DATAMATION readers' choices of the products 
 that best help them do their jobs, "regardless of nanoseconds of 
 difference in transaction processing speeds."
 
 According to DATAMATION editors, "You won't find a more flexible 
 high-end symmetric multiprocessing system shipping. The 64-bit machine 
 runs OpenVMS, OSF/1, and NT today, satisfying the crying needs of the 
 huge installed base to support legacy applications while moving into 
 the 21st century."
 
 Although performance and price/performance weren't gating factors to 
 selection, the AlphaServer 2100 shines in all categories. The 
 AlphaServer 2100 4/275 server and Microsoft SQL Server for Microsoft 
 Windows NT last month set performance and price/performance records 
 (308.8 tpsB at $423/tpsB) in independently audited tests defined by the 
 Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). CONTACT: Ken 
 McDonnell, 508-493-5358
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 Digital - NetRider remote access systems unveiled

   Digital today introduced the Digital NetRider 90 and Digital NetRider 900
 systems, the industry's lowest-priced, most complete remote access solution.
 This solution now brings telecommuters and remote locations into the network
 easily and reliably.
   The Digital NetRider 90 and Digital NetRider 900 systems enable IS managers
 to extend the reach of their network services through an all-inclusive
 combination of software for multivendor client connections, unlimited client
 licensing for remote node capabilities, and Internet browser software.  In
 addition, the system incorporates a multiprotocol access server that can be
 used either in a standalone mode or as a module in Digital's DEChub
 backplanes.  
   "With today's trends towards telecommuting, remote offices, and a mobile
 sales force, the need for remote access is growing at a rapid rate," said Dr.
 Laurence Walker, vice president and general manager of Digital's Network
 Product Business.  "The Digital NetRider solution further exemplifies our
 commitment to provide customers with a complete networking solution -- from
 the backbone out to the remote user." 
   The Digital NetRider systems:
   o  deliver the industry's only complete, low-cost solution for different
      connection requirements, including client software for TCP/IP, IPX, and
      AppleTalk environments; 
   o  provide remote users with their favorite method of network access,
      including Mosaic for Internet browsing capabilities; 
   o  ensure ease of administration for the network manager by fitting into
      existing networks and by providing accounting facilities and robust
      security;
   o  offer unmatched configuration flexibility and scalability as a member of
      Digital's award-winning DEChub family, the industry's only stackable and
      hub-based solution integrated in one product set; 
   o  are supported by Digital's portfolio of global service and support built
      on more than 35 years' experience. 
   
   "Based on our recent study of the remote access market, the Digital NetRider
 system addresses all the critical needs of the IS manager," stated Michael
 Howard, president of Infonetics Research Inc.  "It offers a very low price,
 good value, and has features for both the IS manager and the remote user."
   The Digital NetRider system includes client software for multivendor
 environments with unlimited licensing for remote node connections, Mosaic from
 Digital, and either an 8-port or 32-port access server.  The NetRider Remote
 Office software, licensed from Stampede Technologies, provides remote users
 with several methods of network access, including fully-integrated remote
 control/remote node capabilities from DOS and Windows over IPX and TCP/IP
 concurrently. 
   William Maro, Digital's vice president of Network Product Marketing and
 Engineering said, "The Digital NetRider system provides the IS manager with a
 choice of network access styles for the remote user, while also helping to
 maintain network security and administrative control.  These are the
 requirements we have heard from our customers, and we are delivering them
 today."
   The Digital NetRider 90 is priced at $3,400 and is available immediately.
 The Digital NetRider 900 is priced at $9,345 and will be available in March.
 Digital NetRider software upgrade kits are immediately available for
 DECserver access servers, starting at $1,295.
 
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  Internet - Overhyping the Internet: Where's the beef?
	{Forbes - 30-Jan-95, p. 100}
	[This is the entire article - TT]
		Where's the money?
		By: David C. Churbuck


Net offers international calls at local prices

    [science] COMPUTER owners will soon be able to make national and
   international phone calls on the Internet at local charges - or for
   nothing if they have leased Internet line



   A corporate executive warns the Internet could be his company's "biggest
 productivity reducer."  The truth about cyberspace is this:  New technologies
 go through three phases - mania, bankruptcies, rebirth.  Right now, it's
 mania time on the Internet.

   Roderick Braithwaite thought that he had the information superhighway all
 figured out.  His Victoria, B.C., company Internet Order House, built an
 electronic catalog for an Edmonton merchant selling backpacks.  He put the
 catalog on the Internet's World Wide Web, told the Net where it was, and
 waited for the customers to show up.
   He;s still waiting.  "We have been dismayed at the lack of interest to
 date," Braithwaite confessed to an Internet mailing list in October, one month
 after opening the store.  "I mean, we're talking two responses total, and one
 of those was a friend of mine."
   Mark Radcliffe, a Palo Alto, Calif. lawyer and coauthor of "The Multimedia
 Law Handbook," has a similar experience.  He put a $30 abridged electronic
 version of the book up for sale on the Online Bookstore.  "We've had about
 1,000 lookers, but not one sale," he says.  "We thought multimedia law was a
 natural for people on the Internet.  But people don't want to pay for
 anything.  I guess it is all part of the culture."
   If you believe some of the published hyperbole, 20 million people worldwide
 are on the Internet, and this network of hip, modem-ready computer users is
 growing 15% a month.  That's 435% a year.
   Internet is on everybody's lips and in everybody's news stories.  A Nexis
 search shows 2,475 newspaper stories containing the word Internet in just one
 month, November.  That was a gain of 309% from a year earlier.
   But where is the flood of spending money this great phenomenon was supposed
 to unleash?  As John Little, founder of Portal Information Network, Inc., a
 Cupertino, Calif. Internet access provider puts it, "It is still a lot easier
 to pick up the phone and order a pizza than to log on to the computer and do
 it."
   "The things happening to the Internet are the same things that happened in
 the videotext industry," Little continues.  "People wouldn't spend $700 on a
 limited-function TV set to look up a phone number.  All in all I think we'll
 be seeing a lot of disappointment in the Internet very soon.  Right now it is
 like an enormous library with no card catalog.  People look around and leave."
   Don't tell this to Wall Street.  America Online, the premier pure play in
 on-line services, trades at 131 times earnings.  Netcom On-line Communication
 Services, which is in the business of providing connections to the Internet,
 went public a month ago at 13 and has since shot up to 24 1/4.  That is 1,212
 times earnings.  It values each Netcom subscriber at a preposterous $3,600.
   Venture capital is pouring into anything with the word Internet in it - at
 least $30 million in the last six months, according to newsletter
 VentureFinance.  Bolt Beranek & Newman, an electronics firm with a spotty
 earnings history, is trying to get back in Wall Street's good graces.  It has
 dumped a hardware division and is putting its money into acquiring regional
 Internet networks.
   AT&T reported paid $50 million for the Interchange Online Network, an
 on-line service that hasn't even been started.  America Online just shelled
 out $30 million to get BookLink Technologies, a firm working on an Internet
 interface.  At the time of the sale, BookLink had but 15 employees, had been
 in existence for all of nine months and had yet to sell its first piece of
 software.
   Are most of these eager investors fated to be disappointed?  If technology
 takes its usual path, the answer is almost certainly that they will be
 disappointed with a capital "D."  Human beings have a stubborn habit of not
 doing things when the technologists say they ought to,  The real revenue shows
 up a decade or two later.
   Railroads changed the world in the 19th century, but many of the early
 railroad companies went broke.  So did many of the pioneer auto companies.
 Three decades ago, it was predicted that IBM, General Electric, RCA and
 Control Data would dominate the computer age.  Only IBM actually made it,
 Several of today's leading players, including Compaq and Apple, were created
 only when the computer era was already 30 years old.
   Few of the pioneers of TV have even survived - remember Dr. Allen Dumont,
 his manufacturing company and his network?  The movie companies, once thought
 to be the victims of TV, turned out to be among the biggest winners.
   In short, the triumph of technology is foreseeable:  what direction it will
 take and how society will use it is not predictable.
   So it may be with the Internet.
   Yes, there are people making money off the Internet right now.  But they
 aren't the people selling products on the Internet or reengineering their
 businesses around the Internet.  They are the folks selling connections to it,
 software to navigate it, seminars touting it and books explaining it.
   Put it this way:  Hyping the Internet has become almost as big a business as
 the Internet itself.  "Books in Print" has 230 titles that include the magic
 word Internet.  Laurence Canter and his wife Martha Siegel, the pioneers of
 Internet junk mail, were roundly attacked for the on-line advertising of their
 legal business.  No matter.  Now they're cleaning up with their "How to Make a
 Fortune on the Information Superhighway" (HarperCollins, $20).  "It isn't
 often that you have an opportunity to take part in the development of a great
 new industry, but it's about to happen to you right now," Canter and Siegel
 gush in the book.  "By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to
 cybersell with the best of them."
   So, if you can't sell products on the Net, you can still sell advice to
 people who think they can sell products on the Net.  Last year Mecklermedia of
 Westport, Conn. folded its on-line marketplace only two weeks after opening
 for business.  But it hauled in $1.3 million hosting an Internet trade show,
 double the year-earlier figure.
   In the early days of the gold rush, it isn't the prospectors who get rich.
 It's the folks selling steamship tickets to California, blue jeans and picks
 who get rich.
   The hype is breathtaking.  Consider this excerpt from a brochure touting a
 $695-per-person conference in Los Angeles this March on "The Business of
 Interactive Information":
   "...a multimillion-dollar industry based on the dynamics of interactive
 information flowing into and out of our homes, offices, cars and classrooms
 ... a digital superhighway that provides datariders with anywhere/anytime
 information. ... a world where virtual reality is reality.  The result will be
 an electronic global community living, working and playing in cyberspace.
 And the biggest new market opportunity in history."
   Who are these 20 million Internet users?  A fair number, we'll wager, are
 already suffering from Internet burnout.  Here's the syndrome.  You access the
 Australia Defence Force Academy archive, then paw through 37 comments about a
 Unisys patent that has on-line fans in a tizzy because it will threaten their
 photo downloading, then read the same Pentium joke for the third time in a
 Usenet newsgroup.  Then what?  Maybe you go back to your TV set.  Maybe even
 pick up a book or a magazine.
   We know of a foreman with no computer experience who acquired a sudden
 fascination with the Internet last summer after seeing on-line erotica at a
 neighbor's house.  Soon he had a spanking new computer with a 14,400-bit-per
 second modem and SLIP connection so that he could cruise the Web in all its
 graphical user interface detail.  After downloading a picture of a naked woman
 (it took 2 1/2 minutes), he went back to reading Playboy.  Now he uses the
 machine to play Doom and store some phone numbers.
   "Consumers won't put up with the slow speed and unpredictability of the
 Internet," says Lee Levitt, an analyst at International Data Corp.  "Corporate
 America is looking at the Internet as a opportunity to save their business.
 It won't happen.  Coca-Cola won't take orders for six-packs on-line."
   Even if the Internet were already the most efficient way to buy groceries,
 it would be a long while before consumers preferred it to their old shopping
 habits.  Maybe Time Warner should be grateful that technological glitches
 caused its video-on-demand service to get off to such a slow start in Orlando.
 It will take a decade to wean consumers from their rented videos.  In short,
 Sumner Redstone wasn't stupid when he paid $7 billion to buy Blockbuster Video
 for his Viacom last year.
   Of course, any business that ignores cyberspace ignores the future, but the
 smart ones aren't yet putting big bets on it.  As a way to move merchandise,
 it has not proven itself and probably won't for a long time.
   Condom Country is an Internet server run by five enterprising young MIT
 graduates who wanted to build electronic catalogs but needed a working
 prototype to show prospects.  Between 1,000 and 3,000 people visit Condom
 Country every day.  Maybe 8 buy condoms.  The Economist estimates it receives
 a dozen subscriptions a month via the Electronic Newsstand, an Internet
 service.
   Sex does seem to sell - perhaps because the anonymity of the Internet makes
 users less embarrassed.  Open Market Inc.'s directory of commercial sites on
 the World Wide Web lists 1,582 businesses, ranging from sex chat lines to
 nightclubs.  Open Market President Shikhar Ghosh says the two most popular
 queries to the index's search tool are "Microsoft" and "sex."
   Maybe that's not all bad - soft porn helped get the video business rolling.
 Now videotape sales and rentals have turned into a $14-billion-a-year
 mainstream business - exactly 39 years after Ampex Corp. invented the
 videotape recorder.  Last year the sickly stock was delisted from Nasdaq.
   What about corporate use of the Internet?  It makes a lot of sense for
 Digital Equipment Corp. or Sun Microsystems to publish product specs on line:
 nerds talking to nerds.  But is it yet time for the average insurance broker
 or freight forwarding firm to be Internet-ready?
   Jay Weiss, a senior analyst at Burger King headquarters in Miami, Fla., is
 evaluating the Internet and the commercial on-line services as a channel for
 communications within the company and out to its customers, suppliers and
 distributors.  "I discovered that the Internet can potentially be the
 company's biggest productivity reducer," says Weiss.  Why?  Employees spend
 working hours surfing through alt.chat.  Adds Weiss, "I am trying to locate
 actual business/strategic uses of the Internet, and haven't found any besides
 E-mail."
   "Technology always starts out as a solution in search of a problem," says
 news-media analyst Denise Caruso in San Francisco.  "No one needs this stuff
 yet.  Billions of dollars will be lost in this market."
   The exalted information highway will one day be used by Everyman.  But don't
 hold your breath.  Or bet your company.
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 Digital - Unveils new disk drives for PC network, UNIX environments
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 3-Feb-95}
   Digital has introduced a range of new StorageWorks disk drives, providing IS
 and networking managers in Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun, Novell, and Windows NT
 environments with high-performance options for configuring disk storage
 solutions in their organizations.
   The new StorageWorks 4.3GB disk drive offers the highest capacity currently
 available on a single 3.5-inch disk drive.
   For applications requiring fast I/O performance, Digital now provides
 StorageWorks 1GB and 2GB wide disk drives featuring a 16-bit data path, and a
 new StorageWorks pedestal that accommodates the wide drives.
   In a separate announcement, Digital also introduced the newest member of its
 RAID subsystem family, the StorageWorks RAID Array 410 for HP, IBM and Sun
 environments.  The RAID Array 410 provides reliable, expandable,
 cost-effective RAID storage.
   "StorageWorks subsystems solutions are designed to meet the growing market
 demand for powerful, competitively priced products that have the flexibility
 to meet the storage requirements of multivendor client/server environments,"
 said Paul Feresten, vice president of sales and marketing for Digital's
 Storage Business. 
   "Our new disk offerings allow users to optimize performance, capacity, and
 cost considerations for their applications with the industry's fastest and
 highest capacity drives."
   The new StorageWorks 4.3GB disk drive and 1GB and 2GB wide disk drives are
 fully compatible with a range of storage subsystems for HP, IBM and Sun
 workstation environments, as well as the Novell NetWare and Windows NT PC
 network environments.
   The 4.3GB disk drive is priced at $2,949. The 1GB and 2GB wide disk drives
 are priced at $999 and $1,749 respectively.  These products are now available
 exclusively from select value-added resellers (VARs).
   StorageWorks is a comprehensive family of disk, tape and optical storage
 subsystems, offering modular, competitively priced, industry-standard
 solutions in customizable desktop, deskside, and datacenter enclosures.
 StorageWorks products are available on multiple operating systems and hardware
 platforms, including Novell and Windows NT environments, plus Digital
 workstations and midrange computers, as well as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun
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 Digital - Signs software resale agreements with Microsoft, Lotus
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 3-Feb-95}
   Digital is now participating in both the Microsoft and Lotus volume
 purchasing and upgrade programs.  The move enhances Digital's capability to
 provide large corporate users with an easy, cost-effective and flexible way to
 make volume purchases of the industry's most popular business software and
 reduce the lifecycle costs associated with keeping a computing environment up
 to date.      
   Both Microsoft "Select" and Lotus "Passport" are comprehensive programs for
 purchasing and upgrading each company's software worldwide.  By partnering
 with Digital, both Microsoft and Lotus are giving their customers access to
 the power of attractive volume-based pricing with Digital's proven software
 management experience and expertise.
   Digital's agreements with these leading software vendors are part of its
 Software Utility program.  Software Utility provides leading-edge tools and
 services to help customers leverage their software budgets and achieve the
 most efficient use of their staff and software assets throughout the software
 life cycle.  
   It comprises three components, Software Acquisition Programs, part of which
 includes partnerships such as the Select and Passport programs; Asset
 Management offerings, including the recently announced POLYCENTER AssetWORKS;
 and Support Service, which includes a full range of user support services for
 technical information and technical support for Help Desk staff.
   "Digital is aggressively helping customers manage their desktop assets by
 reducing the cost of buying and upgrading their PC software," said John Rando,
 vice president of Digital's worldwide Multivendor Customer Services
 organization.  "As part of our Software Utility program, the partnerships with
 Microsoft and Lotus help reduce the direct and 'hidden' software support and
 maintenance costs users incur over the life of their PCs.  Analysts estimate
 that these costs can run into the tens of millions of dollars for large
 corporations over a five-year period."
   "Microsoft is committed to helping businesses streamline the process of
 software acquisition and distribution and lower their total cost of software
 ownership," said Eliza Ward, Microsoft Select group marketing manager.
 "Digital's 10-year record of serving customers' increasingly complex support
 needs, combined with Microsoft Select's strategy to help customers efficiently
 acquire all the software they need when and where they need it, positions
 Digital as an ideal partner to participate in the Select program."
   "Lotus is committed to helping businesses achieve optimal return on
 investment from their mission-critical computing environments," said Bob
 Weiler, Lotus' senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
 "Following through on that commitment means supporting customers' enterprises
 on a worldwide basis.  Digital, with its global service and support
 capabilities and its core competencies in networking and integration, is an
 ideal partner to help us meet this objective.  Digital's experience in working
 with a number of Lotus products, including Lotus Notes, will bring to our
 customers the confidence that they will receive high-quality service and
 support regardless of the geographical composition of their enterprise."
   For global companies with multiple offices throughout the world, having one
 vendor overseeing its software purchasing, update subscriptions and
 maintenance worldwide is especially critical.  Since purchase discounts are
 based on volume, Digital, through its participation in the Select and Passport
 programs, allows customers to leverage their savings by buying software for
 their entire global organization.
   In addition, customers save on administrative costs, since one transaction
 process can cover purchasing for the organization's entire chain of sites.
 Distribution costs are also reduced because Digital, with its worldwide
 network of locations, can cost-effectively deliver an order quickly to a
 customer site.
   Both the Microsoft Select and Lotus Passport programs include a variety of
 licensing and maintenance options.  Available now to customers in 25
 countries,  both programs will be expanded by Digital over the next year. The
 programs can be purchased directly through Digital.  Cost will vary depending
 on program options and volumes selected.



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                       DFWLUG Contact list

The DFWLUG Steering Committee:
  
   Chairman: Lon Crozier                   Meeting  David Whitten
             King ComputerSearch       Coordinator: National Health Labs
             crozier@dfwlug.decus.org               whitten@netcom.com                        
             (214) 238-1021                         (214) 437-5255
            
 Membership  David Cathey               Secretary/  Jim Rodgers
Coordinator: Montagar Software Concepts  Treasurer: SSC Laboratory
             davidc@montagar.com                    rodgers@dfwlug.decus.org
             (214) 578-5036                         (214) 708-6134
            
NEWSLETTER   Alan Bruns                NEWSLETTER   Pat Jankowiak  
 CO-EDITOR:  Allied Electronics         CO-EDITOR:      
             bruns@eisner.decus.org                 jankowiak@dfwlug.decus.org
             (817) 595-3500                         (214) 374-4657

  LIBRARIAN: Scott Snadow               DATA MGMT   Kurt Hyde  
             GTE                        SIG CHAIR:  Boeing         
             snadow@dfwlug.decus.org                hyde@dfwlug.decus.org     
             (214) 453-7727                         (817) 321-6398

  MUMPS SIG  David Whitten                DIGITAL   John Wisniewski     
   CHAIRMAN: National Health Labs     COUNTERPART:  Digital Equipment Corp
	     whitten@netcom.com                     wisniewski@dfwlug.decus.org
             (214) 437-5255                         (214) 702-4138


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                   "The Fastest BBS On the NET"

        
       Lost?  Need a Road Map for the Information Super Hwy?  

   An Internet pit-stop at a meeting of the DFWLUG always includes free
vistor maps and the best routes for Site-Seeing the Wonders of the Net;-)

Visitors can use the Info account to read news and read about the other 
services the DFWLUG can offer them.
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The DFWLUG hosts a semiprivate OpenVMS (The Most Secure OS on the Internet!) 
BBS for use by it's membership, we currently are using VMS 6.1, POSIX and DCL 
shells, DECUS FREEWARE and CDROMS and have over three GIGAbytes of storage 
dedicated to industry information, OpenVMS, Unix-OSF/1, MSDOS/Windows/WNT
and providing net access for our members.

The DFWLUG BBS also hosts multiple phone lines and currently supports 
V.34 (28800 baud) and V.42bis (14400 baud) modems.

The DFWLUG BBS has been in continuous operation since 1991 and is one
of the few DECUS oriented BBS's in the United States.

We provide a menu-driven and shell environment that features:

 *Individual  Private Accounts and directories
 *VAXnotes    Local Conferencing  
 *USEnetNEWS  3300+NEWSgroups Internet Distributed Conferencing 
 *E-MAIL      From and To anywhere in the Internet
 *DECUS UUCP  For file transfer and downloads 
 *Files       Upload and Download with Kermit X/Y Modem, or Reflections
 *GAMES       Shareware and Freeware games (only the good ones;-)
 *Indexes     And locations of all the DECUS Software Libraries 
 *Internet    Network Fileservers access (via E-mail) 
 *DFWLUG      Local Fileserver  (100MBs and growing)
 *Access to   DCL and/or the Posix/krn Shell
 *Editors     We provide EDT, TPU, TECO, and vi editor choices
 *CBI         Computer Based Instruction on a variety of topics.
 *FTP Site    For DECUS/Digital/OpenVMS software, hardware and industry info.
 *WWW server  For information distribution of the DFWLUG and it's activities

WORLD-WIDE-WEB RESOURCES ON THE DFWLUG WEBSERVER

Currently the DFWLUG homepage http://www.montagar.com/dfwlug/ links to Webpages
of the DFWLUG, National DECUS and our FTP site.

The DFWLUG archives and resources include many GIGAbytes of files including
the latest OpenVMS Freeware CDrom, OpenVMS whitepapers and OpenVMS engineering
webpages, and DFWLUG information and resources.

It's just too much to detail here;-) Surf the WEB;-)

USENET NEWS ON THE DFWLUG BBS

The DFWLUG BBS offers the news readers selected Newsgroups from alt, austin, 
comp, dfw, news, rec, sci,tx and vmsnet news hierarchies for over 2300+ 
choices and over 1500MBytes of online news, programs and tools (you just 
can't read it all;-) 

The USEnet NEWS expiration on source and binary file NEWSgroups on the 
DFWLUG BBS is 12 months.  This assures capture and the ability to extract 
all of the posted program parts even if they take several days/weeks to be 
posted from the source. 

Programs, source code and binary files for all models of computer systems  
are distributed world wide via USEnet NEWS in a variety of standard encoding 
formats (Primarily UUENCODED).  Sources for UUENCODE and UUDECODE are 
available on our local Fileserver. 

In addition to 3300+ Newsgroups and extended archives, the DFWLUG BBS has 
set up a permanent Fileserver for many files of interest to our members. 


HOW TO JOIN THE DFWLUG BBS
 
Membership in the DFWLUG and attending our User Group meetings has always 
been free but a private account for the BBS is a modest $10.00 per year 
and available to students and professionals in the DFW area. 

Accounts may be obtained at one of the monthly meetings that take place 
every second Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm at the Digital ACT building
(214-702-4400) in Dallas TX.  

Or contact the DFWLUG Membership Coordinator David Cathey 
davidc@montagar.com voice/(214)-578-5036 

Or the DFWLUG's Digital Counterpart John Wisniewski 
wisniewski@dfwlug.decus.org voice/(214) 702-4138 

For more information and brief access to USEnet NEWS via DECUS's ANUnews
Newsreader, you may dial-in into our public account:

(214) 270-3313 1200 -  9600 Baud 8/n/1  V.42/V.42bis (AT&T Dataport Modem)
(214) 270-5383  300 - 14400 Baud 8/n/1  V.42/V.42bis 


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DECdirect Modem Line 1200-2400 Baud
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(For information on upcoming DEC classes and locations)
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                   *DECUS*   The DFWLUG  NET/Newsletter                  

Volume 5 Number 2                                         February 7th, 1995 



The DFWLUG is an affiliated and licensed Local Users Group of the 
U.S. DECUS Chapter.

The DFWLUG Net/Newsletter is published as a monthly service in 
electronic form Copyright (c) DFWLUG, DECUS, and Digital Equipment 
Corporation 1995. All rights reserved.

This information in this document is subject to change and should not
be construed as a commitment by Digital Equipment Corporation, DECUS,
or the DFWLUG.  Digital Equipment, DECUS and the DFWLUG assume no
responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document.

It is assumed that all material submitted for publication  in this 
newsletter is with the author's permission to publish in any DECUS
publication.  Content is the responsibility of the author and DECUS,
Digital Equipment, the DFWLUG, the Editors and Staff assume no 
responsibility or liability for information  appearing in this
document.

Views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the views 
of DECUS, the DFWLUG or Digital Equipment Corporation.

    Permission to copy material from this VNS is granted (per DIGITAL PP&P)
    provided that the message header for the issue and credit lines for the
    VNS correspondent and original source are retained in the copy.

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