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Article #10597Re: Mac netnews stack -- free or thru A
From: Brian Bechtel
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 05:49
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 05:49
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In article <32300029@inmet> dvb@inmet.inmet.com writes: >1. Buy MacTCP from Apple. (Individual or site--no problem. Is it big $$?) $100 individual or $1000 site license. >2. Get Harry Chesley's NetNews Reader Stack for HyperCard. > (OK. Free? Great. How can it bo obtained? We don't > have ftp right now. Any way to order it or receive it?) Available via anonymous ftp from apple.com, or from APDA. >3. NNTP Server. (What is this? This resides on the news host? > This handles the host file access? And where does this > piece come from? Apple? Host specific stuff? Cost?) NNTP resides on the news host and is the protocol that the netnews reader stack uses to retrieve messages. I imagine the implementation will depend upon the news host; a VMS host will have different software than SysV than 4.3BSD than... Again, available via ftp from all the usual places, via a 900 number from uunet.uu.net, etc. See comp.archives for a list of likely places. --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "my opinions, not Apple's"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!blob From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac netnews stack -- free or thru A Message-ID: <39558@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Mar 90 05:49:42 GMT References: <615@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <32300029@inmet> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24