spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (09/12/88)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/software.n Wed Aug 17 23:08:32 1988 --- src/software.n Sun Sep 11 21:13:47 1988 *************** *** 1,4 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: 40days ! Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU --- 1,4 ----- Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: 90days ! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 17 August 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] *************** *** 77,81 A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall ! of JPL/NASA and released in 1984. This interface also uses full-screen ! display with direct positioning, but it includes many other useful ! features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles --- 77,81 ----- A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall ! now of JPL/NASA and released in 1984. This interface also uses ! full-screen display with direct positioning, but it includes many other ! useful features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles *************** *** 187,189 ! Current software is obtainable from almost any Usenet major site. Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available. --- 187,189 ----- ! Current software is obtainable from almost any major Usenet site. Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available. *************** *** 195,197 ---- ------- - felix felix!bytebug gatech gatech!usenet --- 195,196 ----- ---- ------- gatech gatech!usenet -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (11/13/88)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/software.n Sun Sep 11 21:18:07 1988 --- src/software.n Sat Nov 12 17:25:43 1988 *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 11 September 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] *************** *** 127,136 available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI ! <dle@kl.sri.com>, and is available for public FTP from ! cu20b.columbia.edu in the directory "PK:<SOURCE.TOPSUX.NEWS>". There ! is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under ! Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu ! [10.2.0.78] in pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly ! <connolly@ge-crd.arpa>. An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS ! and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; ! get the pcrrn files. --- 127,134 ----- available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI ! <dle@kl.sri.com>, but current availability is unknown. There is also ! an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under Genera ! 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in ! pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly <connolly@ge-crd.arpa>. ! An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards ! is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (04/09/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/software.n Sat Nov 12 18:50:17 1988 --- src/software.n Sat Apr 8 16:43:53 1989 *************** *** 1,3 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: 90days Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU --- 1,3 ----- Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers ! Expires: +90days Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 7 April 1989 by Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>] *************** *** 50,52 ! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 14, dated 12/1/87. Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a --- 50,52 ----- ! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 17, dated Feb 1989. Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a *************** *** 118,134 NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. ! C. San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley. It is now in release ! 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan Ethernet cards ! and DECNET under Ultrix. NNTP was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil ! Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among ! others. The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape ! (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available ! from the various authors, many major hosts, and by anonymous FTP from ! ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech. Reader clients for VMS systems should be ! available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI ! <dle@kl.sri.com>, but current availability is unknown. There is also ! an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under Genera ! 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in ! pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly <connolly@ge-crd.arpa>. ! An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards ! is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. --- 118,136 ----- NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. ! C. San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley. It is now in ! release 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan ! Ethernet cards and DECNET under Ultrix. NNTP was developed at U. C. ! Berkeley by Phil Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and ! Mike Meyer, among others. The NNTP package is distributed on the ! 4.3BSD release tape (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) ! and is also available from the various authors, many major hosts, and ! by anonymous FTP from ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech. Reader clients for ! VMS systems should be available soon. A TOPS-20 reader was developed ! by Dave Edwards of SRI <dle@kl.sri.com>, but current availability is ! unknown. There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics ! Lisp Machines (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from ! ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by ! Ian Connolly <connolly@coins.cs.umass.edu> and maintained by Richard ! Welty <steinmetz!lewis!welty>. An NNTP reader suite for PC's running ! MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from ! ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (05/15/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/software.n Sat Apr 8 16:50:03 1989 --- src/software.n Sun May 14 22:44:09 1989 *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 7 April 1989 by Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>] *************** *** 132,134 Ian Connolly <connolly@coins.cs.umass.edu> and maintained by Richard ! Welty <steinmetz!lewis!welty>. An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from --- 132,134 ----- Ian Connolly <connolly@coins.cs.umass.edu> and maintained by Richard ! Welty <welty@lewis.crd.ge.com>. An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (07/22/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** /tmp/fo16277 Fri Jul 21 23:13:04 1989 --- /tmp/fo26277 Fri Jul 21 23:13:04 1989 *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 14 May 1989 by Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] *************** *** 196,198 gatech gatech!usenet ! killer killer!postmaster ncar ncar!woods --- 196,198 ----- gatech gatech!usenet ! attctc attctc!postmaster ncar ncar!woods *************** *** 218 Bob Page, Tom Truscott, and Larry Wall. Thanks, folks. --- 218,219 ----- Bob Page, Tom Truscott, and Larry Wall. Thanks, folks. + -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (10/17/89)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** /tmp/fo123123 Tue Oct 17 00:32:52 1989 --- /tmp/fo223123 Tue Oct 17 00:32:52 1989 *************** *** 5,7 Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 21 Jul 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ----- Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford) ! [Most recent change: 10 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] *************** *** 87,88 release, but is very widely available due to its popularity. --- 87,94 ----- release, but is very widely available due to its popularity. + + There are two popular macro packages named "GNUs" and "Gnews" that can + be used with the GNU Emacs text editor. These allow reading, + replying, and posting interaction with the news from inside the Emacs + text editor. Copies can be found on most archive sites that carry the + GNU archives. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf