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- In article <CM1Jtq.7AH@lotus.com>, ebatutis@lotus.com says:
- >
- >
- >In NEWTNews 3.11 what is the difference between doing a Group/Subscribe
- >and a Group/List? Both seem to go out to my NNTP server and get the list.
- >Since this process seems to hang consistently, I can't tell what they are
- >trying to do.
- >
- >There is an updated copy of all the groups on my local hard disk, but NEWTNews
- >doesn't seem to care. I subscribe by copying lines from the grp* file to the
- >sub* file in DOS. It works, but isn't pretty.
-
- Do youself a little favor and dump NewtNews for a real newsreader. Go
- to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, change to the pub/pc/win3/winsock directory and
- download winvn?.zip. The ? shows that I don't know the current version.
- It may be something like 082s.
-
- You'll be amazed at just how slooooow NewtNews is. On my machine,
- in the time it takes NewtNews to update one of the more populare
- newsgroups, WinVN has read in the more than 2800 newsgroups that
- our news server carries! I'm writing from WinVN right now.
-
- Otherwise, I share your opinion about Chameleon: I like it.
-
-
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- From news@bigblue.oit.unc.edu Wed Mar 2 05:10:45 1994
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- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:10:45 PST
- From: asleeis@ucsd.edu (Alex Sleeis)
- Message-Id: <asleeis.3.00420205@ucsd.edu>
- Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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- References: <2js8ur$1nn@scunix2.harvard.edu>, <ace.32.000D2A4D@ics.forth.gr>
- Subject: Talk Daemon/Client ---Was: winsock write "server"?
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-
- >>Does anyone know if a write "server" is available for windows? That is,
- >>I want to be able to receive write messages... (also, I'd like to be able
- >>to send write messages)... If not, how difficult would this be to write?
-
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- >write is not a protocol that can be implemented over networks. RFC1312
- >describes a messaging protocol a-la write that uses UDP or TCP (both
- >acceptable) packets to do write functionality. The only commercial
- >implementation I know of is PC-NFS messaging, included with PC-NFS from 4.0
- >and above.
-
-
- I have never heard of write over the net, only local....Although, "talk"
- consists of a daemon. I am interested in finding some such program....If
- anyone knows of one I would love for them to email me the where-abouts of it...
- If there isn't any, I would be the first to pay for a shareware version, along
- with what I believe would be many others, if a programmer would ever look
- into it.
-
- Thanks a bunch,
-
- DiverMan
- diverman@asleeis.extern.ucsd.edu
-
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