esj@beach.cis.ufl.EDU (Eric S. Johnson) (09/21/87)
Hello all, I am looking for diff's to readnews and vnews which allow them to access news from a remote system via NNTP. I have the diffs for rn to allow this, but some people here like vnews and readnews... Does such a animal exist? Thanks, -- -- In Real Life: UUCP: ...ihnp4!codas!ufcsv!esj Eric S. Johnson II Internet: esj@bikini.cis.ufl.edu University of Florida Ignore headers, reply only to above!
brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) (09/21/87)
As far as I know, no one has ever successfully converted either 'readnews' or 'vnews' to use NNTP. At one time, I had someone here at UCSD who was interested in doing so, but the usual thing happened - he learned to use 'rn' and becoming dazzled by its versatility, abandoned his former beloved newsreaders forever. The NNTP protocol is simple. Ripping all of the file opens and reads out of 'readnews' and replacing them with protocol transactions isn't. It might be better to start over - 'readnews' hasn't enough options or functions that it would be that hard to duplicate, I would hope. But no one has done it yet. Maybe some undergrad who needs a miscellaneous elective credit for a programming project? Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA