Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!jwz@teak.berkeley.edu From: jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: implementing an AMS client Message-ID: <31132@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 5 Sep 89 20:39:13 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 21 CC: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM In-reply-to: > From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) > My advice, for a first pass, is to try to get the "cuis" program to compile > on the TI machine. (I assume it has a C compiler.) cuis is the SNAP > version of CUI, the bare-bones AMS interface. You should be able to compile > it pretty easily, I believe. Explorers don't run C at all, so I can't reuse any existant code; what I was hoping for is some server similar to NNTP, where I can just open up a connection and say, "give me the next article," and it will dump some text my way. It would be nice if I could decide whether what I get is in datastream format or not, but that isn't very important; I can deal with either (eventually I'd like to interpret the datastream, but at first I'll probably just filter the text out of it). Why do I want to do this? Mostly for kicks, but my primary motivation is that the netnews reader on Explorers is just like RN, and I hate RN. My secondary motivation is that I can't read the CMU bboards from here (UCB) except through telnet. Lower down on the list is that I like the idea of multimedia bboards... -- Jamie