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j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:

>In article <1992Aug14.222031.21833@hellgate.utah.edu>,
>mshields%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael S Shields) wrote:
>> 
>> Question:
>> 
>> 	Do the newsreaders discussed here allow you to dial in to a remote
>> Unix box(say with Zterm) and then read news?? Or are they for a Mac connected
>> to a network where you can access a Unix box directly??

>All of them work (in theory) with any of the new SLIP products or with ARA.
>Here at NU, we are using MacSLIP from Hyde Park software together with our
>Cisco terminal server to support general dialup access to the Internet for
>Mac users. All the TCP/IP client software we support here at NU works fine
>with MacSLIP, it's just slower: Eudora (regular network mode, not the
>special dialup Comm Toolbox thingy), Ph, NewsWatcher, XferIt, NCSA Telnet,
>tn3270, etc.

>That's the beauty of MacSLIP (and ARA too): You don't need special versions
>of your networking software. All of the regular MacTCP-based software works
>with no changes. This is because MacSLIP and ARA actually make your remote
>dialed-up Mac a "real" node on the Internet.

CAN I ASK A POTENTIALLY STUPID QUESTION AT THIS POINT?
WHERE DOES ONE OBTAIN MACSLIP????
I HAVE JUST BEEN GOING THROUGH THE PAINS OF GETTING EUDORA TO WORK 
FROM HOME AND THIS SOUNDS REALLY GOOD.

>NewsWatcher 1.3d5 (the current version), however, is nearly unuseably slow
>over such a dialup link. It currently fetches the entire full group list
>from the server every time you run it, which takes a long, long time over a
>slow dialup link (really bad at 2400 baud, for example). We will be solving
>this problem soon (not in 1.3d6, but perhaps in 1.3d7).
> 
>> Also, what are the choices, and were can I find them.

>I think the basic choices are The News, Nuntius, and NewsWatcher, if you
>don't count HyperCard stacks.

>I really don't know where to get the other ones (sumex-aim.stanford.edu
>would be a good guess), but NewsWatcher is available via anonymous FTP to
>ftp.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.113.52], in the directory pub/newswatcher.
>Warning: NewsWatcher is still in the early development stages. Don't use it
>if you expect perfection. Read the README file, please!

>John Norstad
>Academic Computing and Network Services
>Northwestern University
>j-norstad@nwu.edu

THANKS,
MICHAEL HANSLIP.
yogi@coombs.anu.edu.au