Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News and readnews
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.222613.29812@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <256CE0EB.2F3A@rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 22:26:13 GMT

In article <256CE0EB.2F3A@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>Would anyone who has gotten the "rna" readnews which comes with C News
>to work please contact me via e-mail...
>I haven't seen any bug reports about it, so I am really curious what
>my problem is.  Is it just that no one bothers with this?  Or is that
>black cat that crossed my path ...

Most people use more sophisticated news readers, and the ones who do use
rna use it mostly as a dead-simple reader for novices.  (Both of C News's
"home systems" do that, for example.)  Its various options and such have
not been exercised very well for a long time.  It's definitely somewhat
cranky about the format of the .newsrc file.

We would welcome fixes for it, but it's not high on our own priorities.
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