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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
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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.

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Tony Green
Coventry
England
tony@agjg.demon.co.uk