NEWSRDR, Networking, NNTP News Reader Client for OpenVMS 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.