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Are there any available offline news readers available for linux preferably with a graphical user
interface???

Thanx in advance

Alan:

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> Are there any available offline news readers available for linux
> preferably with a graphical user interface???

> Thanx in advance

> Alan:

http://www.wwdc.com/~jbailie

Used it for a bit but found the interface strange .....

In addition I have found that the headers in the Linux newsgroups to
commonly have little connection with the content of the thread so
downloading just the headers isn't in practice very useful :(.

Currently using Leafnode + Knews, probably one of the easier setups
to configure and use.

Hope this helps

Kim

see (http://www.winehq.com) for more details.

frank

Quote:> Are there any available offline news readers available for linux preferably with a graphical user
> interface???

Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/

(It uses John Davis' slang library, which underlies the jed editor and the
mutt mailreader...taken as a package, slrn/jed/mutt make for an excellent
command-line suite.)

Jim
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"A well-reasoned post couched in badly-composed English is like a dog
that speaks Latin:  rare and utterly useless."  --  Dennis Nedblake

The offline newsreaders available are:

(a) slrn with slrn-pull: slrn is a console based newsreader. It is very nice.
Does things like colour the articles, etc.

(b)     News peruser. The drawback of peruser is that it is basically only
suitable for single user systems (since the cache is per-user no pun intended,
the cache isn't system wide ... )

The caching news servers available are leafnode and newscache. NewsCache doesn't
seem to (conveniently) support authentication , so if you need a password
to post it won't do much good. Leafnode is OK.

Go to http://www.linuxapps.com for links to these apps ...

cheers,
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>Are there any available offline news readers available for linux preferably with a graphical user
>interface???

Leafnode is probably the easiest to set up in this case. If you get a .deb
or .rpm of it, it will probably set itself up "out of the box" so to speak.
You then simply use the program "fetch" that comes with the package, and it
downloads all the groups you read.

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Quote:

>Are there any available offline news readers available for linux preferably
>with a graphical user
>interface???

>Thanx in advance

>Alan:

Can you give me any tips how to configure it?

When I type leafnode, I just get a line saying the daemon
is present (something like that} and nothing else happens.

What file do I put the name of my news server in and where?

Thanx in advance

Alan

I went into the /usr/lib/slrn/slrn.rc file but I don't know where to
put the name of my news server. Where ever I put I end up
with error reading line 8 or whereever else I put it.

Any suggestions???

Quote:>(b) News peruser. The drawback of peruser is that it is basically only
>suitable for single user systems (since the cache is per-user no pun intended,
>the cache isn't system wide ... )

Does that mean doing something to the kernel as well.

Thanx in advance

Thanx in advance

Alan

: Use any newsreader you like, and use something else to fetch your news to a
: news server running on your local machine.

: Leafnode is probably the easiest to set up in this case. If you get a .deb
: or .rpm of it, it will probably set itself up "out of the box" so to speak.
: You then simply use the program "fetch" that comes with the package, and it
: downloads all the groups you read.

I will give it a try, when you have downloaded the news to read them
offline using leafnode, can you answer/post an article and next time
you are online, post it with leafnode ?

Thanks and regards

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Quote:>Forte Agent (and FreeAgent) 16bit version runs fairly well under wine.

>see (http://www.winehq.com) for more details.

>frank

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