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From: cgb@count0.uucp (cgb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: news readers
Keywords: cnews trn
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.123409.2901@count0.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 91 12:34:09 GMT
Organization: BenaTong
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Someone ask if anyone has ported any news readers to the NeXT.

I have Cnews and trn (threaded news reader) running on my Nextstation and they
work fine.   I can't say that I "ported" them since all I did is answer the usuall
100 questions for Cnews and it simply compiled.  As for trn, it has Larry Wall's
meta-compiler front end to the make files ( IMHO a great piece of work) and there
was no problem getting it to work either.

I did have to set a NAME env. variable to get trn to stop trying to use yp to get my name
but otherwise things went smoothly. (having a wizard class unix friend didn't hurt either :-) )

Chuck