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- From: tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson)
- Subject: Re: GUI Mail and News
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.163102.1135@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- References: <clarke.stevens-171192102042@astgator-219.gatech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:31:02 GMT
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- In article <clarke.stevens-171192102042@astgator-219.gatech.edu>, clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu (Clarke Stevens) writes:
- |> I am fairly new to the sgi platform, so forgive me if this is a FAQ. I am
- |> surprised that with all the great graphical user interface software on the
- |> Indigo, the utilities manual still advocates the unix "Mail" program for
- |> reading and sending mail. Surely someone has a GUI mailing program out
- |> there. If nothing else, I would be willing to use elm (is it public
- |> domain?)--but Mail??!?!
-
- I just started using Zmail which is both a gui and non gui mail program.
- It is commercial. It can be purchased from SGI's Software Express.
-
- |>
- |> I would also be interested in a GUI news reader.
- |>
-
- I use xrn. This compiles easily for SGI and can be obtained from the usual
- X sites, chief of which is export.lcs.mit.edu.
-
- |> If anyone has GUI programs to do either of these things, I would greatly
- |> appreciate hearing about it.
- |>
- |> Also, I would like nifty GUI interfaces to the following if they are
- |> available:
- |>
- |> ftp
-
- mftp/xftp works fine on SGI. Available from export
-
- |> telnet
- |> WAIS
- |> Gopher
-
- There has been some discussion on xwais and xgopher for SGI. Hopefully it will
- resurface again and/or become something on the FAQ listing.
-
- |> talk
- |> IRC
- |>
- |> Any help would be appreciated. If there are good sgi applicable anonymous
- |> ftp sites, please let me know where they are.
- |>
-
- Bill Henderson maintains a list on SGI related ftp sites. Available from
- vab02.larc.nasa.gov.
-
- |> Thanks in advance,
- |> Clarke
- |>
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> J. Clarke Stevens | Georgia Tech Research Institute
- |> clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu | (404) 528-3254
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