Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!opus!afoiani From: afoiani@nmsu.EDU (Anthony Foiani) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Why doesn't someone create and easy to use rn? Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 16:54:36 GMT References: <1085@shiva.misemi> <2831@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <885@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> <1989Oct10.235247.13717@rpi.edu> <674@wet.UUCP> Sender: news@nmsu.edu Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Lines: 28 In-reply-to: rodney@taac.ipl.rpi.edu's message of 15 Oct 89 21:34:03 GMT Just a personal preference, but if any of the people out there complaining about rn and rn' have access to gemacs, I would not hesitate to recommend gnus. It has an extremely stable interface, fairly mnemonic keys [altho I have yet to figure out how to get 'a' from "post"]. And best of all [for all you editor affectionados(sp?) out there], everything is treated as a buffer in gemacs... i.e. edit to your heart's content. it is available from xanth.cis.odu.edu [anon ftp], but fair warning: it take something like a meg of free memory to get it running [altho it goes down to about .5M when byte-compiled]. Setup is not for the faint-of-heart [or low-of-disk-quota], but anybody fairly conversant with UNIX and gemacs has a fair chance. The package includes a tcp.c program that [if i remember correctly] allows use of NNTP w/o needing NFS. (I'm not sure on this point, but it sounds good.) In closing, gemacs + gnus is far superior to rn, and probably to nn [altho i have had no experience with this reader]. It gives the user much more powerful article selection features, as well as supporting all our old friends [kill files, etc.] laters... -- tony foiani (afoiani@nmsu.edu) "And remember...don't lose your a.k.a. Tkil (mcsajf@nmsuvm1.bitnet) head..." -Ramirez, HIGHLANDER