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    Hello all

    I would like to start discussion and hopefully and improvement
in news readers. I for one am quite tired of trying to get software
mentioned in some news article with a winsock ftp program. What I would
like to see, and please feel free to comment, is a drag and drop from a
news article onto an ftp program. Even a cut and paste would be better
than my current method of writing everything down on those yellow
stickies. I know I should be able to see site and file once and then type it
in from memory but I can not. I realize that it may mean changing the way people
write their news article but I do not think this is such a great
problem. I will suggest one method of my own or we could use the method
that is used in Mosaic

     my method:

    site:   ftp.somewhere.goto
    path:   /some/directory/path
    ascii:  an_ascii.file
    binary: a_binary.file

    www URL method:

    file://ftp.somewhere.goto/some/directory/path/a_binary.file



    NOTE: even the idea of adding cut and paste to winsock
newsreaders would be a great benfit as most of the time I do not want to
save a whole news article but some section of it.

    Thank for your time

    Paul Hounsell
    University of Joensuu, Finland
    [e-mail]
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From: Johann S. Jonsson2
To: winsock
Subject: Connection timeout?
Date: 17. February, 1994 16:20

Whats going on...?

After spending lots of hours to get winsock programs to work (Gopher,
Cello, Mosaic) I get conncetion timeout.

I'm running W4W 3.11, with standard Microsoft configuration connectet
to HP-lan (on HP 9000/817).

Also trying Trumpet winsock with winpkt, same there.

If I ping from my PC, I get no packet back (100% packet loss)

If I use Macintosh, who are connectet to the same server, using MacTCP,
and Ping from there or direct on the terminal, all is OK.

(I use Wnqvt/net for Winsock as terminal on the PC, and it's work fine)

any help on connection timeout?......


Thanks

Johann S. Jonsson
e-mail:  [e-mail]

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LANG=""; export LANG
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH


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main()
{
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    scanf("begin %o ", &n);
    gets(buf);

    if (freopen(buf, "w", stdout) == NULL) {
        perror(buf);
        exit(1);
    }

    while (gets(p=buf) && (n=C)) {
        while (n>0) {
            a = C;
            if (n-- > 0) putchar(a << 2 | (b=C) >> 4);
            if (n-- > 0) putchar(b << 4 | (a=C) >> 2);
            if (n-- > 0) putchar(a << 6 | C);
        }
    }
    exit(0);
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From: [e-mail] (Tim Kiddle)
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Organization: RMIT CSE High Performance Computer Systems (CITRI)
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Subject: Problem with Xwin and xrn news reader


Keywords: Xwin xwindemo xrn


I am having a problem using xwin with the xrn news reader.
In fact, I am having several problems.
1. When I point to a news item, to hihglight it and read it,
I highlight the item below.  The point of the arrow does not
quite point to where the action is.
2. The item I want is supposed to highlighted.  Instead, it is erased.
3. When I do select an item, it shows up with much of the text missing
and I have to 'nudge' the border of the display, causing a rewrite
of the screen, which then displays the text correctly.
4. (as I have just discovered) No text is displayed, when I try to
submit a news item so I cannot see what I have typed.

Hope someone can help
Tim Kiddle
email [e-mail]