ka (02/02/83)
Are you developing eyestrain trying to read news items as they scroll up the screen? Do you feel that the two keystrokes re- quired to enter the 'n' command is (at least) one keystroke too many? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then vnews may be for you. Seriously, I have written a visual readnews program a la vicmd or other visual shells. It is not ready to be released--in particu- lar it only runs on HP 2621 terminals under System 3 and 5 at present. Conversion to curses should be easy but curses is copywrited. If you are interested in working on it and/or using it as is, let me know. Additional features: - Improved (at least changed) reply and followup commands. - Displays current time and informs you of mail. - Strips off long prefixes on author names and deletes notesfile headers. - Designed to be useful on low speed terminals. Kenneth Almquist