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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vn verses vnews
Message-ID: <614@white.gcm>
Date: 14 Oct 88 11:10:41 GMT
References: <632@convex.UUCP> <3286@edm.UUCP>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <3286@edm.UUCP> rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:

.I guess that part of the reason why people complain about rn is that you 
.HAVE TO RTFM.  This isn't good for non-hacker types who like to have the
.computer do all the trivial work for them.  A good user interface should
.try to be onobtrusive -- sort of like a sports ref who spends most of the
.time almost invisible and only stepping in when something weird happens.
. 
. RN also needs a 2 page (or less) FM.  Many people just don't know how to 
.look for things in a manual that you can't read in one quick glance.


For help, type "h".  One thing that makes RN better than vn et al. is
that it will automatically show you articles by subject thread rather
than fifo.


-- 
Dave Caswell
Greenwich Capital Markets                             uunet!philabs!gcm!dc