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Version: 4.2-9, June 1993
Submitted By: Matthew Madison, TGV Inc.
Operating System: OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS AXP
Source Language: MACRO-32, C
Keywords: Data Communications, Networking
Software Requirements: A TCP/IP package
Memory Requirements: 1.5MB
Changes & Improvements: Rewritten in C. Significant performance improvements. Other new features too numerous to mention.
Restrictions: VAX/VMS V5.0 Operating System or later, OpenVMS AXP V1.0 Operating System or later is required.

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Abstract: NEWSRDR is an NNTP client program for VMS systems CMU-Tek TCP/IP, Digital Equipment Corporation's VMS/ULTRIX Connection, TGV MultiNet, or any TCP/IP package supporting Berkeley sockets.

NNTP is the Network News Transfer Protocol, which is used to communicate USENET news over TCP/IP. Since many systems cannot afford the disk space to store all net news locally, this program can be used to communicate with a cooperating news server system to read and post net news. News articles are fetched on an as-needed basis and are stored on the client system only while they are being read.

NEWSRDR is not a port of UNIX-based news readers. It is written strictly for VMS and provides an interface that VMS users should find reasonably comfortable. Most of the commands in NEWSRDR should be familiar to VMS MAIL users.

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Last Update: Thu Jan 11 18:43:13 1996