Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!amdahl!drivax!davison From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Turning rn into a threaded newsreader Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 90 05:06:24 GMT References: <-C-#CRF@b-tech.uucp> <2964@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Mar2.150522.24677@pmsmam.uucp> Sender: news@drivax.UUCP (news admin) Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 25 Bill Meahan (wwm@pmsmam.UUCP) wrote: } Where might one find a copy of tn? Is this just a 'patched' version of rn? Tn is currently my baby, and it is being testing at approx. 7 beta sites so far. It is a patched version of rn (with about 160k of new code, and 60k of patches) that maintains a database of reference tree information (threads of discussion) and uses this information to help the user select discussions and read them in an understandable order. Everything is properly ifdef'ed into the source, so it could conceivably be integrated with some future release of rn and allow the installer to decide whether to include the thread-handling. It even allows the user to run it as though it were a "normal" rn, or the extended "tn". In fact, it can do both at once if the installer has decided to only process selected groups. } We're running rn pl44 now. Could someone send me the files/patches by email } please (I don't really have FTP access)? If you're willing to devote some time to providing me with some product feedback, mail me the particulars of your flavor of un*x you're running. We currently are only guarenteed to run on BSD-type systems, with System V porting "in the works." Having rn pl44 (as you mention) is also a requirement. -- Wayne Davison \ /| / /| \/ /| /(_) davison%drivax@uts.amdahl.com davison@drivax.UUCP (_)/ |/ /\| / / |/ \ ...!amdahl!drivax!davison