[news.software.b] news status re NNTP, NFS, news for the PC

edward@csvaxa.UUCP (Edward Wilkinson) (03/24/88)

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Excuse  my ignorance, but  what is the   current state of the  netnews
software with respect to:

	a - NFS		b - NNTP	c - news on the PC

The  reason I'm asking  is that we might  be  getting a  huge Unix box
soon, on which I hope to run netnews. I'm looking for the best way for
PC users to access this. We're looking at PC-NFS, with SPOOLDIR and/or
LIBDIR being exported  from the Unix host  to other Unix  boxes & PCs.
Maybe NNTP has serves a known  port which a  PC program could  ask for
news articles? Is  there  any  software for  the  PC  to read  netnews
available at the moment?

Perhaps it's best if only the authors of the news software answer this
query, otherwise the results will probably be repeated unnecessarily.

A t D h V a A n N k C s E,
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