Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!unido!cat!incom!orfeo!jrix!joachim
From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: All you need is -  WNEWS 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.205745.15019@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 17 Apr 91 20:57:45 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
Lines: 32


I once announced that WNEWS 3.0 from NLMUG (Minix User Group, Netherlands)
is portable to Coherent.
(I still wait for a diskette with the CNEWS for COherent) I now have 
experience with CNEWS for about 14 months and my opinion is that
WNEWS is all you need to receive/post news. Ok, in the package there
is no news reader, just a utility to post news. 
I think that a lot of people are interested in a small news system for
there Coherent machine.
I used WNEWS and the News reader TASS (just posted) and fed them with
Megabytes of compressed news. All things seem to work, the only thing
I didn't try is what happens when a control message is received.
But the files should work, I saw no "dangerous" parts in the files.

Whole WNEWS is compressed just 120 K., as a shar-File 230 k
(I heard a rumour that cnews/Co is compressed 1.1 MB)

I won't post it to this group because I was told this is a discussion group
and promised to never post sources here.

In some weeks or months there should be a new version in the other discussion
group, called comp.os.minix. (.os.:  often sources ? operating system ?)


Joachim

+---------------------------------------+-------+-------------------+-------+
|    Joachim Riedel                     | @   @ |    Don't worry,   | @   @ |
|    Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 48      |  \_/  |    keep smiling   |  \_/  |
|    D-6050 Offenbach am Main           +-------+-------------------+-------+
|    Tel. +49 69 85 62 25               |       joachim@jrix.radig.de       |  
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+