Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!cat!incom!orfeo!jrix!joachim From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Repost of GNEWS release 1.01 almost out beta testers sought Message-ID: <1991May01.080630.14497@jrix.radig.de> Date: 1 May 91 08:06:30 GMT Article-I.D.: jrix.1991May01.080630.14497 References: <303113@mailgsm.mendelson.com> Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany Lines: 49 wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes: >In article <303113@mailgsm.mendelson.com> root@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes: >> >> >> [ ... ] >> >> For those who never heard of GNEWS it is a full feature news system. >> GNEWS is written under Coherent and tested under Coherent. >for those who have not heard, GNEWS is a news reader that runs under >the gnu emacs system. gnews has been around for at least 2 years and >is very powerful and very stable. i really dont think it is going >into another beta test phase. I think Geoff just choosed a name maybe G(eoff)NEWS for a program he wrote That he choosed by accident a still existing name of GNU-Software is no problem. But there is still a difference in pronouncation between both products. Try it that way: G-News and GNUS (see the hint from R. Stallman how to pronounce it correctly) Enough difference ? >> It is much smaller than cnews. It is also designed for the COHERENT evironment. >> And I think it has a lot less bugs and a much better newsreader. >> >cnews doesnt have a news reader. cnews also isnt that large and it is >very bug free. i am sure that henry spencer would like to know about >any bugs you have found in cnews. unless, of course, you are talking >about a different cnews than what everyone else knows about. CNEWS has a small news reader in the package under directory RNA. CNEWS is very bugfree, I use it here on my 386/ix without problems. But Geoff is talking about the Coherent port of the CNEWS-Package. Also: most people would like to have a news system that runs on small model (64 kb Code) Coherent And: Geoff offers his program to the Coherent community as Public Domain. 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 | +---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+