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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Anyone got a cnews inews written in C?
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Date: 25 Aug 90 03:33:56 GMT
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The cnews inews seems like a maintenance nightmare and I believe it to
be the weakest link in the cnews distribution. Not only is it slow, but
it's nearly impossible to debug. Has anyone written a C version?
Considering all the nice library routines cnews provides, this seems
like a natural.

		Craig