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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: News agents/readers for Coh
- Message-ID: <920913868@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 23:39:14 GMT
- References: <8a5S025g21iz01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
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- tpa10@ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson) writes:
- : I am interested in installing a news system on my Coherent (4.0.1)
- : system, but I know very little about it. What I am looking for here
- : is a list of the "available" software to do this. Something along
- : the lines of:
- : News readers -
- : readnews= old reliable standy, available from ???
- : rn = more user friendly, available from ???
- : ???= etc.
- :
- : News agents -
- : bnews
- : cnews
- : ???
-
- News readers:
- rn = less user friendly, ported to Coh 3.x and 4.0, has some problems with
- Coherents sh, not very fast, available from MWCBBS and COHware.
- vn = a little bit more friendly then rn, ported to Coh 3.x and 4.0, runs
- without problems but is slow, available from MWCBBS, raven and my system.
- tass = user friendly, ported to Coh 3.x and 4.0, has problems with the
- 64KB data limit under 3.x, is fast, available from MWCBBS
- and my system.
- tin = very user friendly, ported to Coh 4.0 (no chance to get it running
- under 3.x), is fast, available from MWCBBS, raven and my system.
- nn = most powerfull reader I've seen so far, ported to Coh 4.0 (no chance
- to get it running under 3.x), is very fast but uses ~10% of the size of
- news articles for a database, available from MWCBBS, raven and my system.
-
- News packages:
- gnews = I've never get it running, is dead because the autor forbids the
- usage (of all his programs) because of a flame war some month ago.
- wnews = compatible to bnews, easy to install and administer by unexperienced
- users, ported to Coh 3.x & 4.0, available from MWCBBS and my system.
- cnews = the standard today, very difficult to install and administer,
- ported to Coh 3.x but has some problems with Coherents sh,
- available from MWCBBS and COHware.
- porting to 4.0 is in progress. interesting is the new performance
- release, not the old release from COHware!
-
- : or whatever. I have seen posts mentioning things like "TIN" and "ELM"
- : but I have no idea what category they fit into etc. I guess a "catalog"
-
- Elm is a mail user agent, the best one you could get today for UNIX.
- Can only be run under Coherent 4.0, easy to use, good documentation,
- it's a must if you are using email.
-
- : of news software is what I am after and some idea of where to start.
- : Comments/reviews would be OK but not required. The two main points are
- : to 1. find out what is available on Coherent and 2. find out which
- : programs work together (i.e. cnews <-> rn).
-
- All news readers works together with all news packages.
- Hope this helps to get an idea.
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