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- From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: UseNET on networked Amiga?
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- Message-ID: <mykes.0am9@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
- References: <mbs.0s7i@adastra.cvl.va.us> <9434@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> <1992Jul28.223251.17115@unixg.ubc.ca>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:09:36 PST
- Organization: Amiga makes it possible
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Jul28.223251.17115@unixg.ubc.ca> ewong@ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong) writes:
- > In article <9434@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
- > >In article <1992Jul25.134555.14011@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> mx8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- > >> Has anybody out there managed to develop a Usenet reader for
- > >> ethernetted Amigas? Any help on this would be most appreciated..
- > >
- > >Well, it appears I'm in this moment newsreading from a networked Amiga.
- > >The server is a UNIX Amiga and on my Amiga there runs the Amiga AS225
- > >networks software. I rlogin into that UNIX Amiga and run rn from there.
- > >I also can rlogin into an SCO UNIX computer on our network which is a
- > >Commodore PC (Intel-based) and run nn there. No problems, great per-
- > >formance (at least on the Amiga server).
- > >
- > >--
- > >Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions...
- > >Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
- > > or peterk@public.sub.org
- >
- > I don't think that is what he is looking for. I asked the same question about
- > 6 months back and ended up with very little that I could use. He is probably
- > (correct me if I am wrong) looking for a reader that runs from the Amiga and
- > gets its feed from a news server. For example, NeXT has the NewsGrazer, Mac
- > has TheNews. The amiga has readers like Grn, Arn, etc. but they all seem to
- > work only with UUCP. Isn't there anything that will read the news directly
- > from a news server?
- >
-
- GRn has nntp code in it, but it hasn't been tested yet. GRn works fine if you
- have a CNews-style news directory on a file server somewhere... I suspect that
- all Amiga newsreaders would do that.
-
-
- > --
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- > | Eldon Wong: ewong@ucs.ubc.ca | University Computing Services |
- > | | University of British Columbia |
- > |________________________________________|_________________________________|
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