IBM infoMarket NewsTicker 2.0 README 7/19/96 The NewsTicker is an internet client application that displays news headlines in real-time on your desktop from a (continuously growing) list of sources. Current sources include: - Reuters (Business, Entertainment, International, Sports, Politics) - ESPN SportsTicker (MLB Scores, MLS Scores, News, Etc.) - Olympic Games - (ESPN SportsTicker and ACOG Official News) - C|Net Central News and, pending some paperwork... - Computer/Technology News from an excellent online news source (sorry, can't say who yet...) New sources should continue to be added over the summer. Requirements: - One of the following UNIX variants: + AIX 4.1 + Solaris 2.4 for Sparc + HP-UX 9.0 + SGI IRIX 5.3 - 256-color display - About 1Mb of free disk space - Motif runtime libraries - Full-time internet connection (will support both SOCKS and HTTP proxies) - Netscape Navigator or NCSA Mosiac to view full text of news articles Note: - Not a network hog... low network throughput and you set the update interval. - Not a disk space hog... does not cache any documents on your local disk. - Not a screen hog... only 44 pixels high FTP Location: ftp://ftp.infomkt.ibm.com/pub/ticker/ Customer Support: Phone: 1-800-23108219 Email: webmaster@www.infomkt.ibm.com