pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com (Pete Lyall) (04/30/91)
I'm going to be leaving my present job and transitioning over to a
location where news may not be available (yet .. ;^}). I started to
write some simple tools for collecting articles & compressing them so
that I could Zmodem them home to my PC for unpacking and reading.
It works, but it's a fairly ungainly approach (especially in terms of
following a threaded discussion). It occurred to me that I was
probably reinventing the wheel, and that several other folks
may already successfully and happily be doing what I would like to do.
That in mind, I beseech you net.pc.wizards: what's available (and
where) for home based news reading software? I do have a dedicated
phone line for the system at home w/ a 9600 v.32 modem on it, and I
have done some mucking with UUCP here in the past. All suggestions
greatly appreciated.
Pete Lyall (hopelessly addicted to News for over 5 years....)
P.S. Please mail responses to pete@wlbr.imsd.contel.com
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"... So I picked up my pride from beneath the pay phone, and combed his breath
right outta my hair. And sometimes, it's not so easy ..." J. Hendrix/My Friendmark@misgate.wciu.EDU (Mark Patterson) (05/01/91)
> I'm going to be leaving my present job and > transitioning over to a > location where news may not be available (yet .. ;^}). > I started to > write some simple tools for collecting articles & > compressing them so > that I could Zmodem them home to my PC for unpacking > and reading. Try FSUUCP or Waffle. Both are available from the SIMTEL archives. Mark -- Mark Patterson - via Global Mission Network node 12:2000/9 UUCP: {elroy|cit-vax}!wciu!misgate!mark INTERNET: mark@misgate.wciu.EDU