scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) (09/18/90)
In article <1895@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <34723.26f1098d@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> snms4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: >| >| I'm searching for a PC-Based Usenet news reader. > > What problems did you have with the one posted to cbip? v07i119: >pcnews. On a slight tangent to this thread: Is there such a thing as a PC based News reader which will let an IBM PC operate as an NNTP client via a network? Something like rn or nn which would run on my '386 clone instead of my having to log onto another machine to read news. Any help much appreciated! -- Scott Coleman University of Illinois scott@kines.uiuc.edu
cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar) (09/18/90)
scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) recently informed us: >On a slight tangent to this thread: Is there such a thing as a PC based News >reader which will let an IBM PC operate as an NNTP client via a network? >Something like rn or nn which would run on my '386 clone instead of my having >to log onto another machine to read news. Well, FSUUCP will *technically* do this. If you have a network setup such that you have common drives, you can set up the fsuucp.cfg file to point to the news directory on the remote machine. If you are running something like "The $25 Network" where drives are shared but not named the same (see figure below) there is an option in the fsuucp.cfg file "serveralias" that will map the drive properly. machine A: has drives C and D and exports D machine B: has drives C and D and exports them both machine A will see C, D, E, F (where E and F are machine B's C and D) machine B will see C, D, E (where E is drive A's D) Now... if you are running news on machine B, and machine A has all the files, you make your fsuucp.cfg file access all the files on drive E, which is really machine A's D. You then put a line in your fsuucp.cfg: serveralias;d which will tell the news software to substitute "d" as the drive on any postings (otherwise the files will have the remote drive alias (E in this case) and when machine A ran anything on the news it would have the wrong name). I hope this helps... -- ++Christopher(); --- cambler@polyslo.calpoly.edu --- chris@fubarsys.slo.ca.us --- Ever get the feeling that there is someone out there who understands you completely?
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (09/19/90)
In article <26f5af4c.eda@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar) writes: | Now... if you are running news on machine B, and machine A has all the files, | you make your fsuucp.cfg file access all the files on drive E, which is really | machine A's D. You then put a line in your fsuucp.cfg: I think you have confused NNTP with something else, possibly NFS or Novell Netware(tm). NNTP does not mount files, it connects a client and server through sockets. Not related to drive anything, it's a connection between a process called an NNTP server and a number of clients on other machines. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me