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From: Sandeep.Mehta@philabs.philips.com (Sandeep Mehta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Sunview news reader
Keywords: Software
Message-ID: <51071@philabs.Philips.Com>
Date: 9 May 89 08:05:49 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 278, message 6 of 24

In article <15132@bellcore.bellcore.com>, tr@madeleine (tom reingold) writes:
>$ X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 202, message 12 of 21
>$ 
>$ Does anybody have a toolsome newsreader that runs under Sunview?  Please
>$ reply by e-mail;  I will share responses with anyone who asks.
>
>I don't know about the original poster, but I would prefer something
>that uses an interface closer to that of mailtool.  That way I don't have
>to remember all those weird one letter "rn" commands.  Of course, I still
>want alot of the power that "rn" has.  Sigh....   --wnl

I think the two public domain news readers for Emacs(tool): Gnus and Gnews
are quite nifty, i.e. if you use emacs. The latter is rn-like (it took me
less than a day to convert), and if you like menus, they can be added in. 

sandeep
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Sandeep Mehta                                       ...to be or not to bop ?
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