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From: munnari!fac.anu.oz.au!gih900@uunet.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: nntp for CMU-TEK

> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 10:17 CST
> From: DAVIDLI%simvax.bitnet@munnari.oz
> Subject: nntp for CMU-TEK?
>
> Has anyone put together the files necessary to use nntp via CMU-TEK TCP/IP?
> Particularly, I am interested in getting the news over our Ethernet rather
> than using some form of uucp.
>
> I would be using the ANU-NEWS program to actually make news available to
> users on our system.

As the author of ANU-NEWS I would love to say that I've done it already,
but unfortunately that's not the case.....

I HAVE implemented an NNTP server process that is fired up in response to
a remote DECNET call, (and hence the server performs all I/O using C
read() and write() calls to SYS$NET). I have also integrated NNTP into
ANU-NEWS, such that ANU-NEWS will open a channel to "NODE::NEWS="
thereby firing up the remote server, and uses $QIOs to communicate
with the remote server.

To use the TCP transport rather than DECNET object connections should be
relatively easy - but I have yet to do the work....

If anyone has any hints or code which will make the task faster I would
appreciate them -- My aim is to have NEWS open a link to a remote TCP server
object (number 819 for NNTP as I recall) and read and write single records via
QIO calls.  I would also like to implement the NNTP server on VMS as a TCP
server - any clues?? 


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