DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) (03/28/91)
Since it's come up several times recently, here's what I know of so far. All programs are written in Pascal and require IBM FAL TCP/IP. News-readers for CMS (to access a remote NNTP daemon on a news-system): - An ISPF-based newsreader. Contact Satish Movva (U37127@uicvm.uic.edu) for more information. - An Xedit-based newsreader. Contact Paul Campbell (pc@mbunix.mitre.org) for information (I've actually played with this a little). There's also an ISPF-based remote newsreader for MVS/TSO - with a little effort, it probably would run under CMS as well. Contact Steve Bacher (seb1525@mvs.draper.com) for more information. If you're running PSU NetNews, a site running NNTP can provide news for your news-server. Andy Hooper (hooper@qucdn.queensu.ca) wrote both of these packages, and stored them in PUBLIC FILELIST on listserv@qucdn. queensu.ca - mail 'GET xxxxxxxx PACKAGE' to the list-server to retrieve it. - NNTPXFER PACKAGE - will poll sites for news, and dump it to the NetNews server's reader for processing. - NNTPRCVR PACKAGE - listens on port 119 for news to be sent via NNTPXMIT or NNTPLINK from another host. Incoming articles are dumped to the news-server's reader for processing. Neither of these packages supports accessing articles stored on a VM/CMS system for reading at a remote site. Implementing this support for PSU NetNews would be a significant undertaking, given the significantly- different architecture of both news articles/control files, and because CMS doesn't multi-task. In addition, there's (presently) no NNTPXMIT for VM/CMS, to feed articles to a site via NNTP. I'm working on this in my spare time (what precious little of it I have). Doug -- Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, doug@ysub.bitnet Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 doug@ysub.ysu.edu My other account is "root".