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- From: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: netnews readers for DOS?
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:52:21 GMT
- Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
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- Message-ID: <ashok.208.726501141@biochemistry.cwru.edu>
- References: <daniels-171292162911@175.175.10.2> <J.Newman.197.726463940@icarus.curtin.edu.au>
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- In article <J.Newman.197.726463940@icarus.curtin.edu.au> J.Newman@icarus.curtin.edu.au (John Newman) writes:
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- >>From: daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel)
- >>Subject: netnews readers for DOS?
- >>I'm looking for a DOS-based netnews reader, similar to NewsWatcher or
- >>TheNews on the Mac side of the world.
- >>
- >>Any info or recommendations for shareware or public domain software that is
- >>available via ftp?
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- >I'm using a very good reader for DOS called TRUMPET. Unfortunately
- >the version I have only works on a network. I don't know if there
- >is a version for use with a modem.
- >The author is Peter Tattam. His email is: peter@psychol.utas.edu.au
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- Trumpet works perfectly well over a modem connection using the SLIP protocol.
- I am using one version of it currently. Another PC NNTP client is the
- Newsreader module of WinQVTnet. This package also performs adequately over
- SLIP connections.
-
- Ashok
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- Ashok Aiyar
- Department of Biochemistry
- CWRU School of Medicine
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