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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) 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 17:39:24 +0100 Organization: The Bath Room Lines: 15 Message-ID: <44mg7s$ibv@skate.demon.co.uk> References: <300871056wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <44l78s$32q@palmer.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> writes: > 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 does xvnews not count? I can't vouch for reliability or usefulness, but I thought it was one of the FreeBSD ports (I'm sure I got it from the BSDisc, could be wrong though) some people even like to use Netscape to read news, which is sort of freely available.. -- ]ain