Re: Reading this newsgroup on my IIGS w/ Proterm. How?

["David \"Inky\" Scott" <daves@interoz.com>]

Bruce R. Baker wrote:
> 
> "Jon" <iigs@hempseed.com> writes:
> 
> >The subject says it all.  How can I use Proterm to read this newsgroup?  I
> >have a shell account and would like to use my IIgs to read this <and other>
> >groups.  How can it be done?
> 
> Well, if you can connect from your apple 2 to the internet, you need to use
> an external reader, on the computer that you log on from.  Just like
> you launch lynx or telnet.  It may be called nn.  I think there are others.
> Right now I am reading and writing from an apple ii from delphi's internet
> connection.  It has a menu to use "delphi's newgroup reader".  NN has been
> disabled on delphi.

I still access Usenet with my IIgs using my Tech shell account and the
unews program, which was quite compatible with ProTerm. In fact, a
couple of years ago, my roommate said that unews interfaced better with
ProTerm than it did with his comm program.

Even after everything at Tech switched over to Ethernet (even the
dorms!), they still maintain the dialup access. I use my office computer
at work most of the time to read the newsgroups, but it's nice to know I
can still fire up the IIgs and do just as good.
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