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From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: CNews users
Summary: need beta testers
Message-ID: <09Jun90.113722.764@ckctpa.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 15:07:22 GMT
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A call for volunteers!  (Quickly, the user sitting at the terminal hits
the 'n' key.  Whew! he thinks.  Almost didn't make it! ;-)

Is anyone out there using the CNews port that was on the Fish disks
awhile ago?  Around 310-320?  If so, please send me some mail.

I'd be interested in beta testers for the second (complete?) release
of that stuff, but I'd prefer people who have looked at/used the first
version.  The original would run on a floppy-based system (sort'uv :-)
but I doubt you'd want to do that with this one...  It *will* run on
a stock 512K Amiga, but your feed site had better not be sending you
news compressed at 16-bits!  Also, the database routines "prefer" to
use in-memory caches, but they'll work without'em.

I already have one gentleman (sorry, Larry, but I had to :-) who will
be feeding other sites doing some testing.  There is still some work
to do converting shell scripts into C, but I hope to have a fully
functional version to bring with me to DevCon.

Okay, enough rambling...  Thanks for the bandwidth, folks!
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