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From: greg@cheers.uucp (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3 and News 3.0
Message-ID: <1T0c4c#2qVNz8=greg@cheers.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 18:02:19 GMT
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rja@edison.cho.ge.com (rja) writes:

>  The other thing about B News 3.0 is that it seems to be tightly coupled to
>the supplied news readers and I'm uncomfortable with that.  We have users

No, the News 3 newsreaders ( vnews, vrn, readnews ) are tightly coupled
to News 3, not vice-versa.  The point is that News 3 provides libraries
of routines that make writing a news reader very easy.  Its newsreaders
use those libraries, that's all.  

>here that use all of ( readnews, vnews, rn ) and aren't going to switch
> newsreaders.

It comes with a nicer readnews, a nicer vnews, and an alomost-there rn,
and your old rn will work too.

>I hope that B News 3.0 will be compatible with all of these ( or supply the
>sources to current patched versions that will run fine with 3.0 transport).
>I'm hoping that I misunderstood the warnings in the TMNN documentation about
>this...

I use nn in everyday life and it works fine... News 3 has not changed 
anything that a normal news reader would need to access.  (Now if your
news reader depends on four fields in the active file, *then* you're
up a creek).

Cheers!greg