[comp.sources.wanted] tools and games requested

tba@sirius.UUCP (Todd Aubin) (10/20/88)

We have just recently rejoined the wealth of the usenet
world after being offline for several months.

Does anyone know where how we may access the latest
source code for:

	"items which we are looking for, not known to exist":

	1) A "news tool" for Sun Microsystems sunwindows environment.
	2) A Unix spell checker simular to the Vax spelling checker.
	3) A news scanner which can "precheck" the tons of new news
	   for interesting items.

	"known to exist" programs:

	1) elm (2.1?)
	2) omega (latest= v0.71 ?)
	3) umoria (latest= 4.87?)
	4) pcmoria (lastest=?)


Thanks for any help you may have to offer.

Todd Aubin
Systems Application Support Engineer
Northern Telecom, Inc.
Network Support Systems Division
Concord, NH

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Todd Aubin	@ Northern Telecom	..!dartvax!sirius!tba

barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) (10/20/88)

In article <183@sirius.UUCP>, tba@sirius (Todd Aubin) writes:
>	1) A "news tool" for Sun Microsystems sunwindows environment.

check out tooltool at the sun-spots archive. (see comp.sys.sun)

>	2) A Unix spell checker simular to the Vax spelling checker.

I know of two: ispell, and correct. I have no idea what the VMS checker does.
correct uses the UN*X dictionary, ispell uses it's own, and "suggests"
the proper spelling.

>	3) A news scanner which can "precheck" the tons of new news
>	   for interesting items.

There is a shell script called 'cn' that tells you how many articles
are unread (uses your .newsrc file). It reports in three columns,
so you can see how many articles are in the first 30 newsgroups
with unread articles.
-- 
Bruce Barnett