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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PC-Based Usenet News Reader
Message-ID: <824@redford.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 15:51:58 GMT
References: <34723.26f1098d@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1895@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1895@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <34723.26f1098d@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> snms4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>| 
>|          I'm searching for a PC-Based Usenet news reader.
>
>  What problems did you have with the one posted to cbip? v07i119:
>pcnews.
The problem with pcnews is that it is PC-NFS based.  You have to be able to
mount a the /usr/spool/news of a unix machine onto a DOS machine.  What I
would like to see is a version that works with a local NNTP server, and has
ethernet support using the FTP packet driver spec.  That way anyone with a 
ethernet card, a packet driver and a NNTP server availible can read, and 
probably post news.  Hope someone comes up with something.


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