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- From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: News Reader for OS/2 wanted
- Message-ID: <BALDWIN.92Nov19001850@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 04:18:50 GMT
- References: <722090267snx@isma.demon.co.uk> <enk2.1.722098416@po.cwru.edu>
- Sender: news@usna.NAVY.MIL
- Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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- In-reply-to: enk2@po.cwru.edu's message of 18 Nov 92 10:53:36 -0400
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- In article <enk2.1.722098416@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik
- Kovach) writes, quoting Stephen Dunne:
- >>I must admit I'd love a PM News Reader.. But can TCP/IP 1.2.1 provide
- >>news in this nntp format ?? (Yes, I'm pretty new at this stuff!)
- >
- >Same here. Any news readers? Mail readers?
-
- TCP/IP comes with a "newsreader" called RN. (Look in the SAMPLES
- directory under TCPIP.) The format is sort of slick-looking, and it
- worked over nntp with no trouble at all. However, the third article I
- tried to read with it was "too large" to be loaded into the reader (I
- thought this kind of crap was why we ditched DOS). I dumped it on the
- spot and haven't looked back.
-
- I posted a while back such a request, mainly for GNUS (to run under
- Emacs, the way Real Men read news). I posted my summary last month,
- which was basically that no one knows yet how to beat nntp.c into
- submission (the .el programs seem to work just fine under OS/2's GNU
- Emacs). I've been trying halfheartedly to do it with gcc, but I'm not
- enough of an OS/2 programmer (my mind has been permanently damaged by
- Windows programming, please give generously) to pull it off without
- documentation.
- --
- From the catapult of: |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
- _,_ J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
- _|70|___:::)=}- U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under
- \ / baldwin@usna.navy.mil |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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