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I am aware of one VMS installation (on a University of California
campus) which has a front-end process called UNEWS.  This process
opens a connection to a UNIX machine on that same campus, and then
opens the rn process for reading Usenet material.  Unfortunately, the
VMS front-end process does not have the same varied functionality
(e.g., one cannot search messages for a string of characters, as some
versions of rn afford).

Such front-ends may exist in other VMS machines, or direct Usenet readers.
One should inquire for each machine.

--Mark

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Mark E. Braden          Internet: marker@oxy.edu
Social Sciences Librarian
Occidental College Library      "How beautiful it is to do nothing,
1600 Campus Road                        and then rest afterward."
Los Angeles, California 90041                   Spanish proverb
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These words are mine, and mine alone (the usual disclaimers)
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