                             TNEWS
                           Version 1.0
          Copyright (c) 1998  Alexander Kresin   All Rights Reserved 

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 This software is for PUBLIC DOMAIN.
 I'll be glad to get by email your opinions and suggestions.
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   It's pity, but my provider has no news server, so I need to find free news
servers for accessing USENET. Usually I look at http://www.jammed.com/~newzbot
where is placed a big list of news servers, sorted by speed, amount of groups
and etc. Then I should connect to every server for determining, is it free, are
there newsgroups I need, is there posting, are messages frequently updated ...

    So one of my first TCP/IP programs I wrote for solving this problem. The
tnews.zip that I offer you to download, include tnews.exe and source -
tnews.cpp . It isn't a pattern of best style, may be, it has some bugs, but
it will be useful for those, who, as I am, is studying Internet programming.

    Before running tnews.exe you need to create a list of news servers and
newsgroups - write it in tnews.ini in sections [Hosts] ( no more than 11
servers) and [Groups] (no more than 5 newsgroups).
    Then run tnews.exe from command line, you may sign a parameter >aaa.txt
to save all messages in aaa.txt file.
    After executing of a program look at news.txt file created by tnews.exe -
there will be a table with test results. 

 This package include:

   tnews.exe 
   tnews.cpp  -  source code of tnews.exe
   tnews.ini  -  sample ini file for tnews.exe
   readme.txt  -  the file you are reading now


  Best regardes,
   Alexander Kresin
 mailto:alex@belacy.belgorod.su
 http://members.xoom.com/alkresin/