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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: news via NFS
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.055023.4507@vicom.com>
Date: 10 Sep 89 05:50:23 GMT
References: <28527@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA
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In article <28527@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf) writes:
=I'd like to install news on our network gateway machine, and
=make the news files available across the network via NFS.  Is
=there any reason why this wont work?  Also, is there something
=about NNTP which makes it better the NFS for providing news
=to everyone's workstation?  We're running a Sun shop, so there
=aren't any computers that don't have NFS.

This is one of the things that I really like about C news.  Setting up an
NFS based news network is trivial and requires no special compilation of the
code.  I mount everything news related on every machine and the software
treats it all transparently.

If I remember correctly 2.11 required a different version of inews for the
client machines.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com