tr@madeleine.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) (04/26/89)
On the subject of "Sunview news reader?", jay@silence.princeton.nj.us
(Jay Plett) writes:
$ X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 202, message 12 of 21
$
$ Does anybody have a toolsome newsreader that runs under Sunview? Please
$ reply by e-mail; I will share responses with anyone who asks.
I have replied by email, but maybe people care to see my quick and
dirty solution:
I just have a simple menu item in my main menu file (.rootmenu).
"Read news" shelltool -Wf 0 217 101 -Wl rn -WL rn rn
This pops up a window in a garrish green with rn started. When I type
'q' at the top level, the window goes away.
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[[ I don't know about the original poster, but I would prefer something
that uses an interface closer to that of mailtool. That way I don't have
to remember all those weird one letter "rn" commands. Of course, I still
want alot of the power that "rn" has. Sigh.... --wnl ]]chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (05/08/89)
Tooltool allows you to create windowed interfaces to most any application.
The tooltool release package includes a windowed interface to rn, and
every person who ever got a copy of tooltool has also tried to write their
own. You can get a copy of tooltool from either the sun-spots archives at
titan.rice.edu or via anonymous ftp from trantor.harris-atd.com
(26.13.0.98) in the /pub/suntools/tooltool directory. The trantor version
is guaranteed to be the latest and greatest versrion.
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Melbourne, FL 32902 FAX : (407) 727-{5118,5227,4004}Sandeep.Mehta@philabs.philips.com (Sandeep Mehta) (05/09/89)
In article <15132@bellcore.bellcore.com>, tr@madeleine (tom reingold) writes: >$ X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 202, message 12 of 21 >$ >$ Does anybody have a toolsome newsreader that runs under Sunview? Please >$ reply by e-mail; I will share responses with anyone who asks. > >I don't know about the original poster, but I would prefer something >that uses an interface closer to that of mailtool. That way I don't have >to remember all those weird one letter "rn" commands. Of course, I still >want alot of the power that "rn" has. Sigh.... --wnl I think the two public domain news readers for Emacs(tool): Gnus and Gnews are quite nifty, i.e. if you use emacs. The latter is rn-like (it took me less than a day to convert), and if you like menus, they can be added in. sandeep -- Sandeep Mehta ...to be or not to bop ? uunet!philabs!bebop!sxm sxm@philabs.philips.com