uwp@giant.cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter) (09/25/90)
Hi to all News-Fans !
I'm searching for a NNTP-Package on the Listserver
(if it exists) cause we want to change our configuration
on the VM. We just want to pull all our News from a near
NNTP-Server in our University, so we don't have to hold
any diskspace. Can anybody help me where I can get
such an NNTP-Package (perhaps it's included in a TCP-Package)
with MODULES for use on the VM-machine ?
Thanx for answering !
Greetinx,
Udo
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BITNET/EARN: WOLKEMP@DB0TUI11FORDE@vm.poly.edu (03/25/91)
I am looking for a full or almost complete implementation of NNTP for VM/SP. I already have a version that only receives News. But would like to have one that also acts like a server.
Doug Sewell <DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> (03/26/91)
In article <91084.105122FORDE@vm.poly.edu>, FORDE@vm.poly.edu says: > >I am looking for a full or almost complete implementation of >NNTP for VM/SP. I already have a version that only receives >News. But would like to have one that also acts like a server. Good luck. I've looked at the NNTPRCVR pascal code that works with PSU NetNews (which is what your site and ours is running). First, CMS doesn't multi-task. That's why the NNTPRCVR code has to keep track of which path a line of data arrived on, and which output file to write the record to, as well as state information for each connection. (FAL 2.X TCP supports IUCV, and GCS - a multi- tasking OS for VM used to support VTAM - has IUCV support, as well). Handling multiple connections for news-reading as well - including retrieving newsgroup information from the GROUP files, pulling individual articles from the VLIB files to send to the remote clients, and still fielding the incoming article traffic, would be a significant undertaking - particularly in Pascal, the standard implementation language for VM TCP applications (FAL 2.X supports C much better, though). A better deal is to dedicate a Unix box to news-server support and come up with a VM NNTP news-reader - there's at least two (I've played with one of them). We may wind up going this route down the road - it looks like we might have a spare Unix box available. Drop me a line privately, and I'll send you the e-addresses. Since the PSU NetNews architecture and VM NNTP support are so different from what you'll find on Unix systems, you might want to take this up on bit.listserv.netnws-l. You might also check out ibm-main and ibmtcp-l and see the recent traffic about NNTP readers there. Doug -- Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, doug@ysub.bitnet Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 doug@ysub.ysu.edu [A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy -- Joseph Campbell
gerland@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (James R. Gerland) (03/28/91)
In article <91084.165454DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu>, DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes... >In article <91084.105122FORDE@vm.poly.edu>, FORDE@vm.poly.edu says: >>I am looking for a full or almost complete implementation of >>NNTP for VM/SP. I already have a version that only receives >>News. But would like to have one that also acts like a server. > >Good luck. > >A better deal is to dedicate a Unix box to news-server support and >come up with a VM NNTP news-reader - there's at least two (I've played >with one of them). We are doing this now. Thanks to a utility called NNR, written by Paul Campbell, from the Mitre Corporation. NNR is in it's beginning stages but is a *GREAT!* start. It allows our CMS users to read and post news from/to the news database which is stored on one of our Unix boxes. For more information contact Paul at NNRPROD@mbvm.mitre.org NNR is a great solution if you have an available newserver and don't have the 250+ cylinders available that NETNEWS might require. Jim...