From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 16:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 8 May 2018, Seth Morabito wrote: > I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of > 3B2/400s, and I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find > old source code for Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually > impossible to find source code for old news *readers*. > > I'm looking especially for nn, which was my go-to at the time. The > oldest version I've found so far is nn 6.4, which is too big to > compile on a 3B2/400. If I could get my hands on 6.1 or earlier, I > think I'd have a good chance. rn was available for 4.3BSD I don't find this code on TUHS, but I got mine from disk 2 of the CSRG Archives. (You can find some old versions of it searching for "/new/rn/ng.h".)