belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin) (08/23/89)
/ teecs:news.software.notes / belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin) / 12:21 am Aug 23, 1989 /
I would very much like to get in touch with some notes gurus out there
...surely there ARE some!?
In fact, I'd even be willing (perhaps) to make some updates to notes
to solve some of its more annoying problems, which are (in my own
opinion):
- Lack of ability to specify distribution for a new note
- Lack of ability to cross-post (OK, I know it's a pain to
store all those cross-posted articles also, but for now
I'd be satisfied to be able to cross-post!)
- Lack of a text-search capability (as opposed to author or
title search)
Can anyone help me in this quest???
(Since I cannot easily cross-post this, I may submit it separately
to a few select newsgroups. Sorry for that!! :-? )
** This is being posted to "comp.sys.hp" since I am using notes on
an HP system, I understand that HP uses notes internally, and
I have heard rumours that some of the latest modifications to
the notes software were made at HP(?) **
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----------scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) (08/29/89)
/ grlab:comp.sys.hp / belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin) / 9:25 pm Aug 22, 1989 / > ** This is being posted to "comp.sys.hp" since I am using notes on > an HP system, I understand that HP uses notes internally, and > I have heard rumours that some of the latest modifications to > the notes software were made at HP(?) ** The last I heard(from someone at HP)...HP got notes from Univ of Illinois and has made numerous changes. I think it is time for HP to consider releasing the source back to the public domain or making it release-quality software and releasing it or something. If enough people request it, maybe it will happen. I've wanted numerous things out of our news-reading software that the notes program can't provide (among them are the features you want, plus a few like storing the notes in a compressed format and providing an easier way to access the notesfiles with automatic scripts...). What I'd really like is the notes subject-compressed (base note with responses) interface structure on top of News's storage structure (one article per file). I'm looking for better news-readers...at the moment I'm looking at a couple of readers that run under GnuEmacs with the B-News directory structure. Scott Blachowicz USPS: Graphicus UUCP: ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott 150 Lake Str S, #206 VoicePh: 206/828-4691 Kirkland, WA 98033 FAX: 206/828-4236