martinea@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA (09/08/90)
Does anyone have any experience with a package known as pcrrn? I can find the source but not executables nor any documentation. Can anyone help? Michael Martineau NSTN Inc.
towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfigh) (09/12/90)
In article <1078@hawk.nstn.ns.ca> martinea@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA writes:
Does anyone have any experience with a package known as pcrrn? I can
find the source but not executables nor any documentation. Can anyone
help?
I ported it to my company's board-based TCP/IP. From what I
understand of it, it is just a hacked-up version of RN to run on a PC,
and a sloppy job at that. You have to have a drive I: mapped to
create temporary files, if certain environment variables aren't set
(like FULLNAME) it just blows up, and there is no posting ability
until you write your own PNEWS. But, it is the easiest solution right
now, as no one will have GNU Emacs, let alone GNUS, up and running on
a PC in the near future!
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Mark Towfigh, Racal InterLan, Inc. towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM
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"The Earth is but One Country, and Mankind its Citizens" -- Baha'u'llahmcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (09/12/90)
>In article <1078@hawk.nstn.ns.ca> martinea@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA writes: > > Does anyone have any experience with a package known as pcrrn? I can > find the source but not executables nor any documentation. Can anyone > help? > I looked at it: it is missing the most vital piece: the hookup to the Ethernet card. PLEASE!! Does anybody have code that will make this thing run with a Western Digital 8003E (preferably without .sys files or TSRs)? AS is it has one routine with lots of missing header files and undefined globals. Doug McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
jim@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jim Martin) (09/20/90)
I'm in the process of porting PCRRN to the PCIP libraries, and cleaning up the ugliness in the code. The primary purpose of this is to support remote news reading on pc's in the dorms I've just networked, via both SLIP and 10Base-T ethernet. I'll make it publicly available as soon as it's done. Jim