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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!news From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: trn Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:31:12 -0500 Organization: Computer Science, UNT, Denton Texas Lines: 36 Sender: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu Message-ID: <q8specorri.fsf@replicant.csci.unt.edu> References: <4kc65i$4rn@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In-reply-to: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 9 Apr 1996 00:06:26 +0100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.6 In article <4kc65i$4rn@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: > Is trn really just something that displays a line saying ....[npq] > ? > Or maybe I screwed up in the config settings. I've installed the trn-3.6 > port, but it can't take that long to compile something that "more"s files > in the /var/spool/news directory. There are a few options in the configuration that determine trn's default threading behavior. Try starting trn with the "-x -X" flags. If you like what you see you can configure it to default to this in its normal running mode. From your description it sounds like trn is running in "rn" mode. > If trn isn't capable, are there any newsreaders capable of reading news > sub-threads (I use tin at the moment, but it piles the whole thread into > one big "lump"). > I'm looking for something reasonably intuitive, and although emacs's > GNUS suits me thread-wise, explaining it to "users" isn't something > I will do... "Well, to exit, type CTRL-X followed by CTRL-C" always > puts them off. Tin is probably going to be the most intuitive newsreader for your users, especially if they are already used to using elm for their mail; the tin and elm interfaces are similar. I personally like the way trn handles threads better than gnus or tin. When running in threaded mode trn makes a graphic display of the thread in the top right corner of the article and you can navigate through the thread with the arrow keys. This makes it especially easy to chop off unproductive sub-threads in low signal/noise ratio newsgroups. -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/