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From: george@vax2.ccs.cornell.edu (George R Boyce)
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Subject: vms news system
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 10:50:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 10:50:05 1987
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I am designing a system on VMS to access usenet news on a remote (BSD
unix) system via the NNTP protocol (across a Wollogong TCP/IP
network). I plan to have two user interfaces available, one a seperate
user program and the other GNU EMACS.

The only existing interface that I know about is a modified version of
rn which looks like a lot of work to port to native VMS (I don't want
to use Eunice).  I also want to be able to port my VMS work to CMS if
I'm asked.

Before I do too much work, does anyone wish to contibute ideas or
source code to such a project? My design, if left unaltered, will be
based on my experience with the 4.3 BSD based rn and the GNU EMACS
rnews command.
George Boyce, Academic Computing, Cornell University
george@vax2.ccs.cornell.edu (128.84.252.100), george@crnlvax2.bitnet