todd@janus.Quotron.com (Todd Booth) (11/21/90)
I found some ka9q documentation on thumper.bellcore.com and it was dated 11/08/90. It did not include information on programming, nntp or mbox commands. Does anyone know where to find this information? thanks, --tod todd@quotron.com
jrc@com50.c2s.mn.org (Jeff Comstock) (11/22/90)
In article <657@janus.Quotron.com> todd@janus.Quotron.com (Todd Booth) writes: >I found some ka9q documentation on thumper.bellcore.com and it >was dated 11/08/90. It did not include information on programming, >nntp or mbox commands. Does anyone know where to find this information? > Here is one way ( not too fun though ): Ftp to ucsd.edu, and snatch the archive of the tcp-group. It is probably in /pub/mailarchives/tcp-group. It is ALOT of files, and at least 4 meg of data. The mailbox came out in January of 1990, and Anders went over things pretty well. If you need docs on the nntp server, it is in the archive nn901027.zip in /pub/ka9q/incoming on thumper.bellcore.com. I don't know about the standard nntp client. The usual way to figure out how things work is to look through the source code. It is not as bad as you think..... As far as programming, the file smisc.c is an excellent starting point to see how a simple server/client is written. Jeff NR0D