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- From: sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol)
- Reply-To: sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J. Sobol)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Distribution: world
- Subject: cnews/wnews
- References: <1992Aug26.153113.3702@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Message-ID: <920828733@tiny.com>
- Organization: The Tiny Software Company, Main Office, Cleveland, Ohio
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 01:50:34
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- mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu () writes:
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- >BTW, while we're on the subject, what is the major difference
- >between cnews and wnews? I'm told that cnews is almost the
- >de facto standard these days.
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- Wnews is a direct port of the old Bnews to Minix. It was then ported
- to Coherent. It was deliberately created not to have a lot of features.
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- Cnews is the next generation succesor to B and is *much* more robust
- than W.
-
- *--TechnoGeek--*
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