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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Software written to your specs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.142511.3029@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:25:11 GMT
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- In article <H.8zrhn73hGgw@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
- >
- > I'd like to see a trn-like newsreader for the various uucp setups
- >we have. Or even better, a port of the bsd uucp package to MiNT. If
- >uucico ran under MiNT, I'd be running MiNT all the time, so even a
- >MiNT freindly UUCICO would be nice.
- >
-
- You might want to take a quick peruse around Comp.lang.perl. Some guys at
- University of Manitoba have just released a newsreader written in Perl,
- that is designed to work identically with both DOS and Unix. This would
- be a good opportunity to get the ST in there!
-
- (Notable fact: Larry Wall, author of both rn and Perl, "is
- talking about rewriting it in Perl." He's been busy with other stuff,
- so maybe it's time that others get the task started.)
-
- The program is called "brn", and weighs in at about 50K of code. It
- needs Perl, so you can immediately add another 268K. This is still
- probably smaller than trn, and probably more readable.
-
- Of course, uucp would be required in addition to brn. I'd be surprised
- if the Unix uucp were very hard to port to MiNT.
-
- --
- Christopher Browne
- cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca
- University of Ottawa
- Master of System Science Program
-