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From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix
Subject: Re: Workstation Reading News
Date: 1 Oct 1995 20:16:50 +0100
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References: <300871056wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk> <44m34d$dl@cucumber.demon.co.uk>
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In article <44m34d$dl@cucumber.demon.co.uk>,
Andrew Gabriel <sadg@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>  Netscape (shareware, and not available for many platforms; I don't know
>            about FreeBSD not being a user myself)

Netscape is overkill for most situations. Also, being statically linked it's
a VM hog. If you want to go down that path, however, the

netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z

version works fine.

>Personally, I think being threaded is more important than being X based;
>there are non-X based readers you might consider too.

I agree with this. Mind you, I am also a keyboard hacker. If you can't 
use keyboard shortcuts, I don't want to know :-)

Gary
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FreeBSD Core Member
E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org