I have been browsing through some of the VMSHARE archives at http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/, and I'm curious to know how a user would have interacted with this system. I tried finding a "help" file or similar within the archive itself but couldn't find anything obvious. I think I saw a couple of names there that I'd seen here so figure this is as good a place as any to ask if anyone can enlighten me.
>From what I can tell users would connect to a VM host, would they each have their own account or was it some shared account? Once you were connected, was there some special interface to the system - or did you just use CMS tools (like XEDIT)? It looks like discussions were managed by appending a message to a file (a file per topic), was this something that would be done "manually" or was there some sort of a script that would take your message and append it to the file? How would you know there were new messages in a particular file you were interested in? Would you have to open each file (or, perhaps look at its modified date) or was there a different interface used to actually read messages? Thanks in advance :) Andrew
