NNR (S_1.3.4) and (R_1.3.4) update announcement. Network News Reader/VM (NNR) is a client implementation of Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) a.k.a RFC 977. NNR gives VM users interactive access to a wide variety of bulletin boards, digests and interest groups. SPECIAL THANKS: Arty Ecock @ City University New York Ken Hornstein @ Pennsylvania State University SPECIAL NOTE: as of NNR S_1.3.2 the principal version of RXSOCKET will be V2. i have hooks into NNR to support REXTCPIP which could easily be modified if there were a need to adapt RXSOCKET V1. please let me know if you have a situation where migration to RXSOCKET V2 is impossible and i'll generate the necessary updates. as of NNR *_1.3.3 INN servers will be recognized. if the INN server is INN 1.4 or later XOVER will be used. as of NNR *_1.3.4 i will be operating from our washington site and the nnrprod@mbvm.mitre.org address has been decomishioned. please use campbell@mitre.org for all correspondence. see nnr_133.readme at anonymous sites for details. ***************************************************************** many thanks to the University of Stuttgart and the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey for the anonymous ftp ----------- Anonymous FTP to VMTECQRO.QRO.ITESM.MX or 132.254.90.1 CD NNR 8:00-23:00 CST Mon. to Fri. 9:00-16:00 CST Sat. & Sun. ----------- FTP info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de, 129.69.8.13 cd /pub/comm/news/beginner/software/nnr ----------- source.vers130 - nnr sequenced source and support files updates.vers134 - individual updates nnrrxtcp.noas134 - nnr (without rextcpip) nnrrxsoc.noas134 - nnr (without rxsocket) (requires fal version 2) nnrdocs.vers134 - nnr users guide (script and postscript) the above mentioned files are in a punch format and the following procedure will unpack them. SPOOL PUN * PUNCH Filename Filetype ( NOH ORDER RDR READCARD * * notice that the pre-packaged files no longer contain any of the assembler code (RXSOCKET or REXTCPIP). if you need RXSOCKET: if on BITNET: TELL LISTSERV at CUNYVM get rxsocket package if on Internet (mail only): send mail to "listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu" the body of the message should contain 1 line "get rxsocket vmarc ( f=uue" (you will need the uuencode and vmarc to unpack the mail file) if you need REXTCPIP: i no longer know where this package may be obtained. drop me a line if you think you need it. use the command "gnnrx" to generate the rxsocket version and "gnnrt" for the rextcpip version from source.vers130 and updates.vers134. In NNR exec: set variable ipaddr : ip address mailer : mail machine organization : your organization thisnode : yournode.yourdomain make appropriate update for link to production tcpmaint 592 make appropriate update for printing See "NNR SAMPLEFX" - update, make changes to this file for your site and file it as "NNR SITEFIX". /pc ------------- Paul Campbell The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA, USA 01730, (617)271-3984 campbell@mitre.org