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From: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin Goldstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: 2 questions: Mac Telnet to a port # and Mac news reader stacks
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Date: 4 Apr 91 23:48:27 GMT
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I have been trying to get one of the Mac Hypercard news reader stacks to
work.  I have tried one called Mews 1.4 and one called Netnews Reader 1-2-1.
I have MacTCP installed and operational on my Mac.  I have been using it
with NCSA Telnet and VersaTerm for months.  Both of the news reader stacks
fail when trying to connect to the NNTP server.  I get a message to the
effect "server not responding".   Does this sound familiar to anyone?

In order to troubleshoot this problem, I was hoping to use a Mac Telnet client
(either NCSA Telnet or Mac IP) to Telnet to the NNTP port on the NNTP server
to verify if I can get in that way.  I don't see a mechanism for specifying
a TCP port # on either of these Telnet clients.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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Robin Goldstone, California State University, Chico  Computing Services
rgoldstone@oavax.csuchico.edu