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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 07:47:51 PDT
From:         Richard Warner <rick@SJSUMCS.SJSU.EDU>
Subject:      re: NetNews/Banyan
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              92 5:04 am

>
> >Trumpet also works fine with Banyan (if configured with packetdriver).
> >Look in the simtel mirrors for the latest version (1.05 as far as I know)
>
> Assuming I cannot get through to simtel(.army.mil) via ftp, do you
> know of any other anonymous ftp sites that might have Trumpet?
>
> Roger (marquis@well.sf.ca.us)

The best place in the US is ftp.nevada.edu;  they usually get the most
current version first.

For those who missed it, Peter Tattam (author and keeper of Trumpet) has
developed a version that uses an 'Application Binary Interface (ABI)'
he developed, instead pf packet-drivers.  The idea of the ABI is that
folks can write shims to sit between an ABI application and any TCP
stack.  As far as I know, the ABI version is only on his ftp server at
U. of Tasmania (see below).

Someone has developed a PC/TCP ABI shim, and Peter sent out the following
message this week announcing its availability.

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I have just placed the FTP Software shell for Trumpet newsreader up on

  tasman.cc.utas.edu.au(131.217.10.1)

at the location

  pub/pc/trumpet/abi-version/newsftp.zip

I have had no way of testing this out, and it is offered as is.

Here is the documentation file accompanying it.
==================================================================

Newsx is a wrapper program for Peter Tattam's TRUMPET news reader.
Newsx enables reading/posting of news using FTP Software's PC-TCP kernel.
Newsx is compatible with FTP Software kernels 2.0 and 2.1.

A batch file that reads news on my system:

\pctcp\ethdrv
newsx
\pctcp\inet unload

During news/mail posting error messages from the FTP kernel are randomly
scattered on the screen. Posting seems to work properly. Reading works just
fine.

================================================================
Sean D. True
Rational Systems, Inc.
seant@ratsys.com -- uunet!rational!seant
================================================================

Comment from Peter R. Tattam
----------------------------

This program is provided AS IS.  Please pass any comments to the above
address.

The distributed name of the abi-version of Trumpet is newsabi.exe.  This may
need to be renamed to news.exe or news2.exe

==================================================================
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P.Tattam                                    International Phone 61-02-202346
Programmer, Psychology Department           Australia     Phone   002-202346
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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