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From: fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk)
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Subject: Re: PCNFS vs PC/TCP
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Date: 13 Nov 90 15:02:40 GMT
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tmc.edu!sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>>In article <9010311943.AA12833@ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
>>3270/VT220 multi-session telnet, or a multi-connection FTP server.  We
>>don't have a news reader in 2.05, and I don't think Sun has one either.
>	
>There are two news readers for PC-NFS. Once is based on the RED package from
>MIT and the other is more sophisticated. Both are available via ftp from
>bcm.tmc.edu (look in the NFS directory). They could probably be made to 
>run under PC/TCP, but I don't have PC/TCP development environment. The
>sources to the two packages will be made available this Christmas, so you
>can do it yourself then. 
	
RED is already available for PC/TCP.  I would not, yet, consider this
adequate to say "we have a news reader."  We have just started testing
it.

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