Re: netnews readers for DOS?

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From: Ashok Aiyar
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:52

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In article <J.Newman.197.726463940@icarus.curtin.edu.au> J.Newman@icarus.curtin.edu.au (John Newman) writes:

>>From: daniels@xstor.com (Daniel A. Segel)
>>Subject: netnews readers for DOS?
>>I'm looking for a DOS-based netnews reader, similar to NewsWatcher or
>>TheNews on the Mac side of the world.
>>
>>Any info or recommendations for shareware or public domain software that is
>>available via ftp?

>I'm using a very good reader for DOS called TRUMPET. Unfortunately
>the version I have only works on a network. I don't know if there
>is a version for use with a modem.
>The author is Peter Tattam. His email is: peter@psychol.utas.edu.au

Trumpet works perfectly well over a modem connection using the SLIP protocol.  
I am using one version of it currently.  Another PC NNTP client is the 
Newsreader module of WinQVTnet.  This package also performs adequately over 
SLIP connections.

Ashok
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                              Ashok Aiyar 
                      Department of Biochemistry
                       CWRU School of Medicine
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From: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
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Subject: Re: netnews readers for DOS?
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:52:21 GMT
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