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- Wednesday, December 14, 1994 18:33 EST
-
- Version 0.93.10
-
- This is an NNTP newsreader for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows/NT. You
- can use it to read and post Usenet News, and send email (via SMTP or MAPI)
-
- What is WinVN?
- --------------
-
- An NNTP News Server. It *must* support one of the following
- NNTP extenstions:
-
- XHDR (most news servers can do this)
- or
- XOVER (InternetNetNews is an example of a news server that does XOVER)
- WinVN will use XOVER if your server supports it.
-
- A 'NEWSRC' file. An example is provided. You *must* have the
- file there; WinVN won't write one out just randomly. It can be
- empty.
-
- A 'WINVN.INI' file. Edit this file to point to your news server,
- or you can later change parameters from within WinVN.
-
- An optional 'WINVN' environment variable, telling WinVN where to find
- its two configuration files: 'WINVN.INI' and 'NEWSRC'. You have to
- set this variable BEFORE you start up windows.
-
- You can also tell WINVN where to find the two files by giving
- command-line options with the 'Properties' menu under the Program Manager
- - here are a couple of examples
- (specify a directory to look in)
- winvn.exe d:\winvn\myserver
- (specify each of the two files separately)
- winvn.exe e:\winvn\myserver\winvn.ini u:\users\rushing\newsrc
- [I use this to set up different icons for different news servers.]
-
- The on-line documentation no longer matches the program exactly.
- Lots of new undocumented features have been added, but most should
- be obvious.
-
-
- Requirements:
- -------------
-
- For WINSOCK (v1.1 or higher) compliant TCP/IP stacks (called WINSOCK.DLL):
- (using gwinsock.dll)
- A WINSOCK compliant TCP/IP product such as Trumpet, PC/TCP,
- NetManage TCP/IP, Microsoft LanManager 2.2, DEC Pathworks 5.1,
- Windows for Workgroups, Windows95 etc. Make sure WINSOCK.DLL is
- in your path before starting Windows.
-
- *or*
-
- For NON-WINSOCK TCP/IP stacks:
- (using pwksock.dll)
- A DEC Pathworks v4.1 or Microsoft LanManager 2.1a compatible
- WSOCKETS.DLL Dynamic Link Library. Make sure Windows can find it.
- (set your PATH environment variable).
- If you are not running WinVN on a WinSock compatible stack, before
- starting WinVn, you may need specify which sockets DLL you want to use.
- by changeing the WinVN.INI line in the [Communications] section of
- your winvn.ini: GenSockDLL=gwinsock.dll
-
- NOTE: There's no need to copy or move the DLL to any other
- directory. Keep it with your winvn.exe
-
- NOTE: 'gwinsock.dll', 'genasync.dll', and 'pwksock.dll' are not _replacements_
- for your tcp/ip stack's own socket dlls... they _use_ them:
- i.e, 'gwinsock.dll' talks to 'winsock.dll', and
- 'pwksock.dll' talks to 'wsockets.dll'. 'genasync.dll' is a special
- Asynchronous version that talks to 'winsock.dll' for people with
- Trumpet stacks that cannot run the synchronous version.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks to Mark Riordan for the original WinVN!
-
- Many people have worked on WinVN - it's been a fun, international
- project.
-
- Here are a few of them:
-
- Matt Bretherton MBretherton@cmutual.com.au
- Harvey Brydon brydon@tulsa.dowell.slb.com
- John S. Cooper jcooper@netcom.com
- Michael Downs mdowns@eos.arc.nasa.gov
- Mike Downs downsm@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
- Jim Dumoulin dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
- Michael Finken finken@conware.de
- Don Gardner gardnerd@keystone.ksc.nasa.gov
- Jody Glasser jglas@tdycont.com
- Masaki Ishido ishidou@yhp.hp.com
- Jim Martin jim@noc.rutgers.edu
- Tom Menshik tmenshik@hpcvitlm.cv.hp.com
- Conor Nolan cnolan@tcd.ie
- Roger Pearse pearse_w_r@bt-web.bt.co.uk
- John Piraino jpiraino@execpc.com
- Mark Riordan mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu
- Sam Rushing rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- (countless others I don't really mean leave out)
-
- You can send comments to the WinVN developers by sending mail to:
-
- winvn@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
- or winvn@news.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- If you don't mind alot of traffic on WinVN, you can join the developers
- mailing list by a mail message to: "majordomo@news.ksc.nasa.gov"
- with the Subject line Blank and the contents of the message:
- "subscribe winvn".
-
-
- An easy way to keep up on winvn developments is to point your
- newsreader at 'news.ksc.nasa.gov' (currently 128.159.4.21 for those of
- you with broken DNS's but soon to be changing to 163.205.1.3). There
- should be a single newsgroup, (mail.winvn) which is a gatewayed
- version of the mailing list. Announcements and discussions of common
- problems can be found here. It's very likely the best place to get
- the scoop on _your_ problem. If mail gets much worse, we may consider
- starting an ALT group.
-
- The official FTP site for WinVN is at ftp.ksc.nasa.gov in the
- directory [pub.win3.winvn] (The IP number is 128.159.4.20 but it
- will be changing soon to 163.205.1.4) NOTE: Even though
- ftp.ksc.nasa.gov currently is an alias for TITAN.KSC.NASA.GOV, Don't
- use the TITAN address. The Kennedy Space Center has a firewall
- system and our DNS returns multiple addresses for
- TITAN.KSC.NASA.GOV. You will probably get a few timeouts on
- inaccessable IP numbers before you get the right one. Always use
- FTP.KSC.NASA.GOV instead to get only the IP number that is outside
- the firewall. Always check there for the latest binaries and
- sources. Other sites that keep fairly current with the main site
- are:
- ripem.msu.edu (/pub/pc/win/winvn/titan.ksc.nasa.gov/)
- and shannon.mee.tcd.ie (/winvn)
-
- Matching hardcopy documentation by Jim Dumoulin (dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov)
- for this release is available on FTP.KSC.NASA.GOV. A World Wide Web node
- has been developed for WinVN by Mike Downs (downsm@titan.ksc.nasa.gov) and
- will be available shortly.
-
- -John Cooper, Sam Rushing & Jim Dumoulin
-
-
-
-