Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Repost of GNEWS release 1.01 almost out beta testers sought Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 21:33:39 GMT References: <303113@mailgsm.mendelson.com> <1991May01.080630.14497@jrix.radig.de> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 38 In-reply-to: joachim@jrix.radig.de's message of 1 May 91 08:06:30 GMT In article <1991May01.080630.14497@jrix.radig.de> joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes: > > 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. [ ... ] > > 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 ? remember, there are at least 3 different news readers that work with gnu emacs. there is rnews, the original and primitive one, and the newer and better ones, gnews and gnus. i think gnus is more popular than gnews, but they have both been around for several years. > > Also: most people would like to have a news system that runs on small > model (64 kb Code) Coherent hmm... i thought the folks that wrote cnews worked hard to get it to run under the small model on the pdp-11 and xenix 286. there may be places that no longer fit, but i would imagine that any work that was done to make cnews work under the 64k limit would probably be accepted for the official cnews release. -wayne