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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: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
- References: <9208260133.AA11355@relay1.UU.NET> <9208261001.AA05147@dalek.mwc.com> <1992Aug26.174220.16341@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> <1992Aug27.041430.11757@edus.uucp>
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- Organization: The Tiny Software Company, Main Office, Cleveland, Ohio
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 01:55:42
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- news@edus.uucp (Bob Perkins) writes:
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- >>I vote for elm and nn!
- >I vote very strongly AGAINST nn. I have used nn for several years, and like
- >it very much, and will probably continue to use it on the unix machine.
- >My reason for voting for something else? At this time, I am reading about
- >50 groups, and the "/usr/spool/nn/DATA" directory is 41 megs. That is forty-
- >one megabytes of just cross-reference listing. nn is very fast, but a bit
- >of a pig when it comes to disk usage. After taking a quick look at 'trn',
- >I am going to install it and check the relative merits of each.
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- I am a big fan of trn. I use it regularly when logged in to my public
- access account, which runs Interactive (System V). Lots of nice features,
- especially the capability of extracting articles from places like
- comp.sources.* or comp.binaries.*, uudecoding them and pasting them
- together to re-create the original file automatically.
-
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