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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 2.3
    							         Jan 1994
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			  A B S T R A C T

PACKASM (PACKage ASseMbler) is an OpenVMS utility for extracting and
assembling packages from VMSmail and USENET news. In addition news articles
can be extracted via NNTP or disk based ANUNEWS. PACKASM was created as a
time saver because many users are spending a lot of time manually unpacking
packages, PACKASM should minimize that time.
     
To use the utility, build the source using the descrip.mms file or by using
the DCL command file. Edit the PACKASM.CLD file and change the file
specification for the PACKASM image, or install PACKASM as a foreign
command.

If you are using MMS on an OpenVMS AXP system, you must define the macro
__ALPHA__ (e.g. $ MMS/MACRO=("__ALPHA__=TRUE")).

If you are using Matt Madison's MMK utility, the __ALPHA__ macro is define
by MMK on OpenVMS AXP systems.

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
		TCPWARE	 -- Process Software's TCPWARE TCP/IP product
		FUSION	 -- Network Research's Fusion TCP/IP product
		CMUIP	 -- Default TCP/IP package.

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.

For example:
		$ @BUILD MULTINET
		    -- OR --
		$ MMS/MACRO=("MULTINET=TRUE"[,"__ALPHA__=TRUE"])
		    -- OR --
		$ MMK/MACRO=("MULTINET=TRUE")

See PACKASM.DOC for more details on the PACKASM utility
See PACKASM.HLP for details on the DCL command line syntax and examples.
See the Release notes for new features since the last version.
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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)

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Acknowledgements:

 * I would like to thank Hunter Goatley for his feedback and the time he
   spent testing and identifying bugs, in addition to his ideas for
   improvement of the PACKASM utility.