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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Will nntp 1.6 support SCO & ISC Unix?
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Date: 3 Jun 91 13:17:16 GMT
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In article <309@norisc.UUCP> iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea) writes:
>Will the forthcoming release of nntp fully support SCO & ISC Unix?
NNTP 1.5.11 has an unoffical patch that makes it run on ISC Unix today.
NNTP 1.6 will run (after proper configuration) on either ISC Unix or
SCO Unix. 
>Also will the Archive-name: field in some netnews groups 
>(ie. comp.sources.misc) ever be supported by the nntp protocol.
NNTP already provides a mechanism to retrienve arbitrary parts of a header
whether they are official or not. This feature will continue into NNTP 1.6.
Generally, the Archive-name: is not in the header and therefore can't
be retreived with NNTP. Should Archive-name become part of the header, this
will work.
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