NEWSRDR NEWSRDR is an NNTP client program for VMS systems running CMU-Tek TCP/IP, TGV MultiNet, DEC's VMS/ULTRIX Connection, or any TCP/IP package supporting a Berkeley socket interface. 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. NEWSRDR is written entirely in C. NEWSRDR can be used with any TCP/IP package that supports a Berkeley socket library interface, or with any package supported by the provided NETLIB network interface library. NEWSRDR requires VAX/VMS V5.0 or later, or OpenVMS Alpha AXP V1.0 or later. Support for Japanese sites using Kanji in news articles is provided through the use of an installable library of character conversion routines which can be mapped in at run-time by NEWSRDR. C source is provided for the Kanji character code conversion routines. Support for username and mail address conversion routines is also provided, also through the use of shareable libraries. Refer to the NEWSRDR documentation for specific system and user requirements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR Comments, suggestions, and questions about this software can be directed to the author at one of the following addresses: Mail: Matthew Madison TGV, Inc. 603 Mission Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone: +1 408 427 4366 Fax: +1 408 427 4365 E-Mail: madison@tgv.com COPYRIGHT NOTICE This software is COPYRIGHT © 1992, 1993 MATTHEW D. MADISON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission is granted for not-for-profit redistribution, provided all source and object code remain unchanged from the original distribution, and that all copyright notices remain intact. DISCLAIMER This software is provided "AS IS". The author and TGV, Inc. make no representations or warranties with repsect to the software and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. [librarian's note: Newsrdr distributions in [vms93a.tk.newsrdr] may be referred to if any bits are missing here. Newsrdr needs to be linked on the system for which it is built; the object files are supplied for Vax and for Alpha.]