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From: cedric@tfpbbs.uucp (Cedric Ingrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: cnews/wnews/rn
Message-ID: <91062621713@tfpbbs.uucp>
Date: 26 Jun 91 17:29:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.054914.5966@jrix.radig.de>
Organization: The Floating Point BBS, Paris.
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joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
> BTW: WNEWS is easy to install but has less options. CNEWS for Coherent has
> now a very good installation script so it is much easier installing it than
> without the script. But my opinion is that only experienced News "readers"
> should try installing CNEWS.
> On piggy there is also TASS 3.2, a curses based newsreader. Very good.
> There is also Geoff's- G-NEWS (no, not G'NUZ), another small news package
> for Coherent, it should be available from MWCBBS.

	I'm having some problems with both Wnews and Tass. Wnews reports
errors such as "Cannot link /usr/spool/news/xxxxx, /usr/spool/news/alt/bbs/2".
I checked, and there was only one article in alt.bbs, there was no file "2",
which would have explained the glitch.

	Tass is even more puzzling : it doesn't keep its read-unread flags
between sessions, it creates bogus files (with names full of 8bit characters
(-: ) in my home directory, and on top of that it sometimes hangs the
terminal for no particular reason. I still like this one better than rn,
vn and the like. Has anybody succeeded in getting it to work "just fine" ??

		Cedric


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