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From: louiex2@portia.Stanford.EDU (chris overton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: reading news from the shell
Keywords: Here's how.
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Date: 13 Mar 90 07:52:07 GMT
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About a week ago I asked:
>Does anyone out there know how to read news from the shell application?
>When I try to do this, I get a "No termcap entry found" error. I want to
>use shell rather than terminal so I can use copy and paste operations.

Since there seems to be interest in this question, I'll post some 
replies:

1) From agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk): 
$The problem with reading news from the Shell is that it is not a terminal
$(i.e. it does not support ascii sequences). I would suggest, you start
$a terminal instead of a shell. If you need to use a shell, I think
$cheating is the best way. If you pretend your shell is a vt100 - terminal,
$it won't hurt a lot with the shell-application, as only very few
$escape sequences are used (-> it will look a little messy, but legible).
$>> set term=vt100
$You can also try some dumb terminal emulations - usually "set term=dialup"
$is a safe way to go.
$
$The cut&paste should work now, although it might not always be in the
$desired format...

I found "set term=dialup" to display less garbage.

2) From Charles_Oei@NeXT.COM
$one solution is that
$you can use a 3rd party product called Communicae
$which combines the Shell and Terminal and then some
$from Active Ingredients, 617 576 2000

Thanks again for your replies!




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