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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: looking for news readers for MS-DOS
Keywords: news, pc-nfs
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.070721.23882@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Nov 89 07:07:21 GMT
References: <732@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
Reply-To: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <732@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> wswietse@tuewsa.lso.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) writes:
>At our site we have several PC's hooked up via PC-NFS to Suns running B
>news 2.11.  This allows us to mount /usr/lib/news and /usr/spool/news
>as virtual drives on the PC's.  Do there exist any MS-DOS news readers
>that can be used in such an environment? We'd rather not duplicate work
>already done by someone else. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't been able to test this but we have here in Vaasa, Finland
one MS-Windows program which claims to be a UNIXish vn (visual news
reader). You can give it a try. Hope it works for you. Available for
anonymous ftp login - address below.


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				Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi)
				anon. ftp site (128.214.12.3)