gih900@fac3.anu.oz (GEOFF HUSTON) (04/15/88)
(VMS NEWS V5.2 announcement - 14-Apr-1988)
This posting is to announce the availability of VMS NEWS, Version 5.2.
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VMS NEWS is an implementation of the Standard for Interchange of USENET
Messages (RFC1036) using native mode VMS. The program is similar in
functionality to the rnews suite of programs, implementing a screen-based
presentation environment, posting, replying and followup messages, management
of the NEWS data files, and an implementation of the necessary distribution
algorithms to allow a VMS system to be a routing node within a NEWS network
topology as well as an end-node.
VMS NEWS also implements the NNTP protocol (RFC977) over both DECNET and CMU's
implementation of TCP/IP for VMS, which allows server and client nodes to be
configured over both DECNET and TCP links to remote NNTP clients/servers (both
VMS and Unix{tm}).
]]
The new features which have been implemented in V5.2 include full NNTP support
over TCP as well as DECNET and a basic form of conversation stream tracking.
Previous updates over the last two months include article marking, kill
filters, NNTP support over DECNET, documentation (user and management), and
numerous bug fixes.
The software is FREE, and the distribution includes all sources (in C),
documentation sources (in LaTeX), configuration files and the executables.
How to get a copy:
- I can air-mail you a tape:
This will cost $100 (Australian dollars) to cover the tape, packaging
and air-mail costs. Please send a cheque for the relevant amount
($100 in Australian Dollars please), made out to:
"Computer Services Centre, ANU"
and address the letter to:
Attn: Geoff Huston
Computer Services Centre
Australian National University
GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA
PLEASE DON'T SEND ME A TAPE - just the request and the cheque.
- If you are connected to an X.25 network via VAX PSI then you can
get a copy over the net (in this case you are paying the transport
charges) There are three files you require, with a total size of
1552 blocks in compressed format.
If you wish to do this please send VAX PSI-MAIL to
PSI%505262440032::GIH900
and I'll mail back the procedures to get a copy.
- You can get a copy from someone else who has a copy or from a circulating
tape. I intend to get NEWS V5.2 in the US DECUS FALL 88 VAX SIG tape (If
I can get a tape to the states in time!), and also onto the US DECUS
VUNET tape. If anyone wishes to place the files in an area accessible by
some form of ftp then please do so and announce the fact on the relevant
net.
How NOT to get a copy:
- request me to send a copy over the net - in such a case I would have to
pay the charge for the link out from Australia, and that is prohibitively
expensive for me. Sorry folks :-(
- Send me a request without a cheque for $100.
For further details please mail me at the address below.
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Geoff Huston Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
GPO Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 AUSTRALIA
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