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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PC-Based NNTP News Reader
Message-ID: <1916@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:05:38 GMT
References: <34723.26f1098d@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1895@sixhub.UUCP> <1990Sep18.000238.1912@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <26f5af4c.eda@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <26f5af4c.eda@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar) writes:

| Now... if you are running news on machine B, and machine A has all the files,
| you make your fsuucp.cfg file access all the files on drive E, which is really
| machine A's D. You then put a line in your fsuucp.cfg:


  I think you have confused NNTP with something else, possibly NFS or
Novell Netware(tm). NNTP does not mount files, it connects a client and
server through sockets. Not related to drive anything, it's a connection
between a process called an NNTP server and a number of clients on other
machines.
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