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From: scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Any notes gurus?
Message-ID: <240045@grlab.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 21:50:12 GMT
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Organization: Graphicus
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/ grlab:comp.sys.hp / belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin) /  9:25 pm  Aug 22, 1989 /

> ** This is being posted to "comp.sys.hp" since I am using notes on
>    an HP system, I understand that HP uses notes internally, and
>    I have heard rumours that some of the latest modifications to
>    the notes software were made at HP(?) ** 
The last I heard(from someone at HP)...HP got notes from Univ of Illinois
and has made numerous changes. I think it is time for HP to consider
releasing the source back to the public domain or making it release-quality
software and releasing it or something. If enough people request it,
maybe it will happen.

I've wanted numerous things out of our news-reading software that the
notes program can't provide (among them are the features you want, plus
a few like storing the notes in a compressed format and providing an
easier way to access the notesfiles with automatic scripts...).

What I'd really like is the notes subject-compressed (base note with
responses) interface structure on top of News's storage structure (one
article per file).  I'm looking for better news-readers...at the moment
I'm looking at a couple of readers that run under GnuEmacs with the B-News
directory structure.

Scott Blachowicz
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