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From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Newsreader/lpr for the Mac.
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 15:03:56 GMT

In article <10128@bunny.GTE.COM> jp10@GTE.COM (Jeffrey Perry) writes:
> I would be interested in any information you get on news readers for
> the mac. I know about the hypercard one but i believe it only works 
> with TCP.

Actually it's Apple's MacTCP driver, but I think that's what ya' meant.

> I would like a more general one which could dial a phone number, 
> connect to a unix machine, telnet to port 119 of a NNTP site and 
> interact with it while presenting a mac interface to the user!

I just telnet in and fire up rn or whatever you're favourite UNIX 
newsreader is.  

(But if you'd like a mac-based newsreader, TCP/Connect's 
InterCon II supports serial line IP (SLIP) and is a full NNTP client (as 
well as an SNMP client, an SMTP client, a telnet client, and a tn3270 
client).  You'll find these topics discussed in  comp.sys.mac.comm and 
comp.sys.protocols.appletalk on a regular basis.)  Hope this helps,

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