> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andrew Kay via > cctalk > Sent: 24 May 2022 19:12 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <[email protected]> > Subject: How did VMSHARE user interface work? > > 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.
There is still a VM list and some one on their might remember... Do you know I can't remember the details either! There were multiple ways to interact. I think at the start we didn't have terminal connectivity and got daily digests. > > 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 was a specialist padded cell environment. The user names were local to VM Share. If you look in http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=CONTACT&ft=MEMO you will see that it was offered by Adesse as "CONTACT" but I can't find anything docs for that either.. > > 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? > It was all handled in the package > 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? > There were commands to list new updates since you last logged in. > Thanks in advance :) > > > Andrew Dave
