  D   Copyright  1993, 1994 by Eric M. LaFranchi.  All Rights Reserved.   I   This software is Copyright 1993, 1994 by Eric M. LaFranchi.  Permission I   to use, copy, and freely redistributed this software in its entirety is B   hereby granted provided that the above copyright notice and thisK   permission notice are retained.  This software may not be sold for profit E   or incorporated in commercial software products without the written J   permission of the author.  This software is provided "as is", the authorK   nor his employer make any representation of warranty, express or implied, I   with respect to any code or other information herein.  In addition, the H   author disclaim's any liability whatsoever for any use of such code or   other information.     2                      P A C K A S M   $ R E A D M E#                                     0                        Author: Eric M. LaFranchi,                             eric@emlsoft.com  6                                  			       Version 2.3     							         Jan 1994J __________________________________________________________________________   			  A B S T R A C T  D PACKASM (PACKage ASseMbler) is an OpenVMS utility for extracting andK assembling packages from VMSmail and USENET news. In addition news articles I can be extracted via NNTP or disk based ANUNEWS. PACKASM was created as a K time saver because many users are spending a lot of time manually unpacking , packages, PACKASM should minimize that time.       K To use the utility, build the source using the descrip.mms file or by using C the DCL command file. Edit the PACKASM.CLD file and change the file D specification for the PACKASM image, or install PACKASM as a foreign command.  H If you are using MMS on an OpenVMS AXP system, you must define the macro0 __ALPHA__ (e.g. $ MMS/MACRO=("__ALPHA__=TRUE")).  J If you are using Matt Madison's MMK utility, the __ALPHA__ macro is define by MMK on OpenVMS AXP systems.  G 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 7 		TCPWARE	 -- Process Software's TCPWARE TCP/IP product 5 		FUSION	 -- Network Research's Fusion TCP/IP product # 		CMUIP	 -- Default TCP/IP package.   H By default CMUIP TCP/IP is supported.  If you want to use another TCP/IPI package to access an NNTP server, use one of the above names as an option  to the BUILD procedure.    For example: 		$ @BUILD MULTINET  		    -- OR --2 		$ MMS/MACRO=("MULTINET=TRUE"[,"__ALPHA__=TRUE"]) 		    -- OR -- 		$ MMK/MACRO=("MULTINET=TRUE")   7 See PACKASM.DOC for more details on the PACKASM utility H See PACKASM.HLP for details on the DCL command line syntax and examples.> See the Release notes for new features since the last version.I -------------------------------------------------------------------------  Bug reporting and enhancements.   ? Please direct all bug reports and/or ideas for enhancements to:   % 	Eric M. LaFranchi (eric@emlsoft.com)   * If Eric is unreachable, please forward to:  * 	Hunter Goatley (goathunter@ALPHA.WKU.EDU)  I -------------------------------------------------------------------------    Acknowledgements:   H  * I would like to thank Hunter Goatley for his feedback and the time heC    spent testing and identifying bugs, in addition to his ideas for &    improvement of the PACKASM utility.