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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Walter's news interface (notes)
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Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 13:55:45 EDT
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Phil Ngai, being confused by my comments to him in person, writes;

>Speaking of new News software, I hear you have a new News interface
>with all the good features of notes which uses the regular
>/usr/spool/news data structure? I imagine a number of people would be
>interested in trying it.  I know I would.

As it turns out, (and as I told him last night), the new version of
news that Walter (Underwood) is working on doesn't quite work this way
at all.

The change in the new notes is that it speaks "news" BETWEEN machines.
This means that 'notes' sites can exists peacefully in the midst of
a lot of 'news' sites, without having to use the (evil) gateway.  The
program still keeps its' own internal structures and keeps the articles
in it's own database format.

Programs that I know of that run in parallel to 'readnews' (e.g. the 'news'
message saving structure (/usr/spool/news/<group>/<article-number> (as in
"/usr/spool/news/net/news/adm/549) and /usr/local/lib/news/active)) are;

	rn	- The program I'm using now (Hurrah!)
	vnews	- A visual 'news' interface
	readnews- The low-level old interface

	   ???

Notes is the only system I know of that is incompatible with the 'rest' of
the world...(are there any other systems that use the 'notes' database?

				Enough!  Enough!

					-- Dave Taylor  (taylor@hplabs)