clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) (03/16/91)
Does anyone know of an Amiga port of trn or nn that will run with
CNews style UUNEWS: structure (ie. comp.sys.amiga.misc =
UUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/misc)? I'm still in the quest for the perfect news
reader. Arn is not really suitable because dir scans take so long and it
uses a graphics interface (not AUX:able) While being AUX:able is not
totally necessary, it's a consideration that I'd like to keep in mind. I
would like FULL rn features (or as many as possible) and a system for
following threads (whether by trn methods or '=' rn methods).
I still haven't found what I want and I thought I had all the news
readers available for CNEWS style news. I hope I don't.
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clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) said:
>
> Does anyone know of an Amiga port of trn or nn that will run with
>CNews style UUNEWS: structure (ie. comp.sys.amiga.misc =
>UUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/misc)? I'm still in the quest for the perfect news
>reader. Arn is not really suitable because dir scans take so long and it
>uses a graphics interface (not AUX:able) While being AUX:able is not
>totally necessary, it's a consideration that I'd like to keep in mind. I
>would like FULL rn features (or as many as possible) and a system for
>following threads (whether by trn methods or '=' rn methods).
Vn, which was recently posted to comp.binaries.amiga uses Cnews newsgroups.
It appears to be an incomplete port of Unix Vnews. Instalation is very strange
and involves setting an environment variable and installing a termcap.
I don't think it has rn-style kill files. Actually, I don't know of any
usable news reader that does. (Barn has kill files but it crashes if you look
at it funny) Does anyone know why this is? Is this task THAT difficult?
Even a simple subject kill would help a lot. It didn't seem that hard when I
cobbled together a newsreader for CMS.
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