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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!newsserver.tasc.com!b1mac157.read.tasc.com!user
- From: amiller@tasc.com (Andrew Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: News Reader for FTP's PC/TCP
- Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:46:54 GMT
- Organization: TASC
- Lines: 22
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <amiller-171292164226@b1mac157.read.tasc.com>
- References: <168B8D35C.KDICKEY@cmsa.gmr.com> <ADA.92Dec9174959@zip.larc.nasa.gov>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: b1mac157.read.tasc.com
-
- Greetings,
-
- In article <ADA.92Dec9174959@zip.larc.nasa.gov>, ada@zip.larc.nasa.gov
- (Anthony Arviola) wrote:
-
- >I tried the trumpet program with the PCTCP shim and found it to be really slow.
- > Maybe I'm set up wrong. But something needs to be said about the PCTCP v2.11
- > NNTP/VMAIL reader. What were they thinking? I can't help but think about
- > Trumpet (which is fantastic if running on Crynwr drivers) and NuPOP when I
- > think of PCTCP and vmail. The afore mentioned products are free and the
- > later, we pay for and Trumpet and NuPOP are IMHO far superior products.
- >
- > Anyone know anything about this phenomina?
-
- I've installed the shim, and I'm having trouble making it work. Trumpet
- 1.05G starts up ok (and lists the groups in my NEWS.INI file), but then I
- just keep getting "Command timed out" messages, and nothing works. I'm
- using FTP's PC/TCP 2.11 with the Clarkson 8003pkdr driver. Any suggestions
- why this isn't working for me?
-
- -Andrew
- amiller@tasc.com
-