lerici@SUPER.ORG (Peter W. Brewer) (12/06/88)
I have seen veiled references to a piece of software which sounds useful ... xrn.. does it exist? Where can one obtain it? Peter Brewer lerici@super.org
ricks@shambhala.Berkeley.EDU (Rick L Spickelmier) (12/07/88)
XRN is an X-based NNTP news reader. There is an X10 version and an X11R3 version (beta - not all of the X10 XRN features are in it yet). They can be found on shambhala.berkeley.edu (128.32.132.54 - it supports anonymous ftp) in ~ftp/pub/xrn.tar.Z (X10 version) and ~ftp/pub/xrn-x11-beta.tar.Z (X11 version). Note that the X11 version is still being worked on and is not complete, please read the files X11 and README before reporting bugs or misfeatures (such as save unders are turned on for the compose window - this just came to me as I'm creating this message - the compose window took an awful long time to come up). Also, the X11 version requires bug fixes to the athena widgets. We have reported them, but got no response. If you want to try out the X11 version, grab the source, then mail me a message and we'll send you the bug fixes (and we'll be able to let you know when new versions are available). The X11 version has only been adequately tested on Ultrix 2.2. Rick Spickelmier Ellen Sentovich xrn@eros.berkeley.edu
lerici@SUPER.ORG (Peter W. Brewer) (12/08/88)
Thanks for the message and the info. We have XR3 up on some of our systems compiled with gcc and have noticed the wonderful message handling software which comes with the Andrew stuff. It would be nice if nntp/rn mh/xmh, notes, and etc. used the same interface and even the same program. This program seems to have attempted to begin to address this. Have you seen it? Peter Brewer lerici@super.org