[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] reading NEWS from a PC?

31002_1650@uwovax.uwo.ca (02/16/90)

Is there a NEWS reader that runs on MS DOS computers?  Will it use
packet driver spec interfaces?

ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) (02/17/90)

In article <5006.25db3f3d@uwovax.uwo.ca>, 31002_1650@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
| Is there a NEWS reader that runs on MS DOS computers?  Will it use
| packet driver spec interfaces?

	The PC/IP distribution available by anonymous ftp from
husc6.harvard.edu (128.103.1.56) in pub/pcip includes a simple
nntp news reader.  It includes a packet driver interface.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*

broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl) (02/22/90)

In article <1620@husc6.harvard.edu> ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) writes:
>	The PC/IP distribution available by anonymous ftp from
>husc6.harvard.edu (128.103.1.56) in pub/pcip includes a simple
>nntp news reader.  It includes a packet driver interface.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

True enough, but the packet driver interface doesn't recognize our packet
driver.  It turns out the pcip packet driver support only knows about
Ethernet.

I've ported RED (the simple nntp new reader Dan mentions) to run on top
of NOS (using Russ Nelson's patches).  Has anyone successfully gotten
pcrrn to run on top of a packet driver?
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