PC NewsReader?

[Ashok Aiyar]

In article <nash.127.0 at biologysx.lan.nrc.ca> nash at biologysx.lan.nrc.ca (John Nash) writes:


>In article <1sugru$s2u at umd5.umd.edu> stern at mbimail.umd.edu writes:

>>Are you reading this on an IBM compatible?  Can you tell me the names of
>>any PC newsreaders that might be out there, FTPable preferred.  Thanks.

>Yes, I am.  I'm using the Trumpet PC-Newsreader (fair dinkum Aussie product! 
>by Peter Tattam), ftpable from heaps of sites, but none off the top of my 
>head, except for Simtel and its mirrors oak.oakland.edu and wuarchive.wustl.
>edu, and its home, a "???.utas.edu.au site"  (Try Archie).  Works off 
>Clarkson/Cynwyr packet drivers, with static IP addresses or RARP/bootp.  We 
>also run a version off our LAN server.  It has subject-selection, reads from 
>an nntp host, replies via smtp host, is mouse-able, you can jump from 
>newsgroup to newsgroup by mouse, and it has that PC-Gopher/PC-WAIS feel (
>TurboVision- or Turbo Pascal-made ???).  Dr. Tattam also has versions for 
>other TCP applications, incl. his own Trumpet stack, and there's a Windows 
>version rumoured in beta.

You can also retrieve Trumpet via Gopher from my gopher -- 
"biochemistry.cwru.edu".

Yes, there is a Windows version of Trumpet (in very very late beta).  I am 
using it right now.  Windows Trumpet comes in several version .....

- for the Trumpet TSR TCP stack
- direct to packet driver
- for Novell LanWorkplace
- Winsock 1.1 compatible version

A newer DOS version of Trumpet (1.06) is also in late-beta.

Additionally, Peter Tattam has also recently written excellent SLIP packet 
drivers (for regular and compressed SLIP).  

For more information about Peter's programs, particularly WinTrumpet, feel 
free to write me.

Ashok

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Ashok Aiyar                        Mail: ashok at biochemistry.cwru.edu
Department of Biochemistry                       Tel: (216) 368-3300
CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio         Fax: (216) 368-4544