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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PC-RN (Read News)
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Date: 30 Jun 90 23:48:30 GMT
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In article <42537@apple.Apple.COM> dell@Apple.COM (Thomas E. Dell) writes:
>>I was informed of a thing called "pcrrn", which I got. However, that
>>is not complete - it compiles just fine, if you remove the missing
>>header files - but, sure enough, when you try to link it, ....
>>lots of undefined global. Also, no doc files AT ALL.
>
>There is a copy of PCRRN on ames.arc.nasa.gov in MSDOS/PCRRN. 
Yep.


>I believe it includes binaries.
Nope.


> No documentation to speak of.
>
none AT ALL Not a byte.

>>I simply refuse to believe that an RN for the PC doesn't exist.
>>I am using a Western Digital ethernet card.
>
>Straight RN for the PC does not exist. 

I'm simply looking for something that will read NEws off of a local server
machine over our Ethernet, just like this MIPS does. 
Actually, a better user interface than "rn" itself would be very nice - 
something that groups replies to items in some sort of sequence,
all under one index item - and doesn't make it such a darn nuisance
to re-read items.

But any news reader will probably do. Oh yes - it should also post.

Doug MCDonald