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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!agjg.demon.co.uk!agjg.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: root@agjg.demon.co.uk (Tony Green) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix Subject: Re: Workstation Reading News Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,demon.tech.unix Date: 1 Oct 1995 11:55:25 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44ls2t$81@agjg.demon.co.uk> References: <300871056wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: agjg.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Gary Palmer (gary@palmer.demon.co.uk) wrote: >The third piece of s/w you'll need is a newsreader. There is only one freely >available X based news reader that I know of, and that is xrn, which doesn't >seem to exist as a port yet. If you want to use xrn, I believe that you'll >need to get version 6 or higher or you'll have problems compiling it due >to changes in X11R6 (I can't remember the exact version no. that is known >to work under FreeBSD). For text based readers, tin and trn are >available in /usr/ports/news/. Perhaps you might wish to try Netscape. News handling is great and you can even access embedded URLs. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Tony Green Coventry England tony@agjg.demon.co.uk