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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: News reader for Linux
- References: <1992Nov3.142835.13953@polaris.utu.fi>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:14:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov4.221423.2659@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- Esemi@polaris.utu.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas) writes:
-
- >Do I have to say more ?.. I need good Newsreader (ftp address) like Unix
- >rn, trn or nn.
-
- I just got the 'nn6.4.16' from sunsite.unc.edu to work tonight,
- so you'll see that in a future newspak with matching pathnames,
- etc. with the other pieces.
-
- The key is that the current nn on sunsite is set to use the optional
- 'words' in the nndb rather than the default 'numbers' to represent
- each newsgroup.
-
- I'm running vanilla linux without the long filename extensions,
- so I can't run the extended filenames in the nn database.
-
- thanks to David Black for uploading 'nn' and to Jurgen Kammer for
- the e-mail'd offer of help (and to all the other folks whose names
- escape me at the moment)!!!
-
- So, the inventory goes like this at this time:
- C-news (with or without the '92 optional speedups)
- trn2.2
- tin1.1pl4
- nn6.4.16
- smail3.1.28
-
- Others have the current patchlevels of trn/tin/nn running so I'll
- grab the additional patch or two for each and make them available
- in a future newspak. I'll also continue to include readme.linux
- files and config files in a separate .tar.Z file that includes all
- the parts of newspak so folks can just grab the config files if they
- have the sources already but can't get 'em to work.
-
- [...PeterMacDonald - please drop me a line. I'd like to include
- the newspak stuff in a future SLS if you're interested...
- The last time I tried, I got your automatic mail reflector...]
-
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