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From: trier@cwlim.CWRU.EDU (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PC-RN (Read News)
Summary: No version that don't require sockets or PC-NFS
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Date: 8 Jul 90 19:24:01 GMT
References: <7759@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1990Jun30.222452.5444@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1474@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
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We've been looking for a version of rrn here, too.  PC-RRN's missing header
files and missing functions appear to be interfaces to an MS-DOS socket
library like the one sold by FTP Software, Inc.  However, there's no way
we can license a commercial implementation for the 500-700 PC's on our net.

I've seen a number of newsreaders implemented under Hypercard on Macs; it's
really disappointing that no one seems to have built one on a PC.  Another
person here is considering porting to the modified Stanford PC/IP kernel
he developed, but it looks to be a huge job.

We can't use UUCP news systems simply because this is a large LAN running
TCP/IP.  We need NNTP, not UUCP.

If anyone comes up with anything, please post it.  The goal on the CWRUnet
is to distribute as much as possible onto the users' PC's, and running news
through six central IBM RT's doesn't do that.

-- 
Stephen Trier                              Case Western Reserve University
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