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by **Andrew** » Thu, 29 May 2003 21:36:45

Hi,
does anyone have any suggestions for a text-based linux newsreader,
and an irc client [that supports dcc send/get]? Any suggestions would
be very much appreciated,
Andrew

by **Sybren Stuve** » Thu, 29 May 2003 21:46:35

Andrew Ho enlightened us with:

Quote:> does anyone have any suggestions for a text-based linux newsreader,

slrn

Quote:> and an irc client [that supports dcc send/get]?

*x

Quote:> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated,

Especially slrn is really good. I favour it over any GUI usenet client
I've seen.

Sybren
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by **Peter Karlsso** » Fri, 30 May 2003 00:47:39

> Andrew Ho enlightened us with:
>> does anyone have any suggestions for a text-based linux newsreader,

> slrn

Yep, slrn is a great newsreader!

Quote:>> and an irc client [that supports dcc send/get]?

> *x

My personal favorite is irssi [*].

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by **Tim Hammerquis** » Fri, 30 May 2003 08:05:08

Andrew Ho graced us by uttering:

Quote:> does anyone have any suggestions for a text-based linux
> newsreader,

slrn <http://www.veryComputer.com/>

I actually used Netscape's nntp client for a couple years, as
well as MSOE's, but lack of *any* good Win32 software was my
primary reason for switching to linux in the first place. I
heard about Xnews, but I'd deleted my Windows partition by then,
so... oh well. :)

On linux I've tried trn, gnus, and slrn. Unless you're a lisp
guru, I suggest slrn.

Quote:> and an irc client [that supports dcc send/get]?

I've used mostly *X in the past. I found it poorly
documented but pretty capable.

Several people have suggested irssi, so I will probably play with
that tonight.

Quote:> Any suggestions would be very much appreciated,

You're welcome. :)

Tim Hammerquist
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by **Andrew** » Sat, 31 May 2003 21:49:32

Hi,
just installed *x. how do i set the nickname automatically, so i
don't have to use the -n flag every time? i've tried 'export
IRCNICK="nickname"', but this doesn't work if logout and then
re-login.
FYI, I'm running debian 3.0r1.
Any help appreciated,
Andrew

by **Andrew** » Sat, 31 May 2003 22:20:24

Okay, I think I've got it sorted, except for one thing:
i've saved settings, so that it automatically uses the same nickname
"nickname", for conveniences' sake.
when i do '*x', it says that my nickname is already used and
protected, and won't let me have it.
however, if i do '*x -n nickname', then it will let me have my
nickname. what's going on?
tia,
andrew

by **Andrew** » Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:58:50

Hi,
Don't worry, I've got it all sorted - I thank you all for your help
Andrew

by **Ohmste** » Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:26:08

Quote:> slrn

Just tried slrn as per your advice. Pretty nice, does color too! Good tip,
thanks.

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by **lcoe** » Tue, 03 Jun 2003 01:36:16

>> slrn
> Just tried slrn as per your advice. Pretty nice, does color too! Good tip,
> thanks.

i've used slrn for about a year, now using tin which has better kill features.

the (still) best reader is trn and it's variants, but it is pre-html/color.
trn only runs on *nix, afaik, but could be compiled to run under cygwin.

--Loren

Quote:> --
> ~Ohmster

by **Ohmste** » Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:43:23

Quote:> i've used slrn for about a year, now using tin which has better kill
> features.

I used to use tin or actually, rtin but I don't remember any colors with
it. Does rtin have colors? I mostly use pan because it is nicer for the
binary stuff but slrn brought me back to the old days when all I had was a
dial up shell account and had to use tin for everything. It worked and it
did the job very well. Man, I had to decode multipart binary stuff in those
days and then bring it home with zmodem. Oh God I remember it well... ;>)

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by **lcoe** » Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:14:44

>> i've used slrn for about a year, now using tin which has better kill
>> features.
> I used to use tin or actually, rtin but I don't remember any colors with
> it. Does rtin have colors? I mostly use pan because it is nicer for the

dunno about rtin, but tin does (the binary on the cygwin site). not
any hot link stuff, tho, so you have to copy/paste urls.

Quote:> binary stuff but slrn brought me back to the old days when all I had was a
> dial up shell account and had to use tin for everything. It worked and it
> did the job very well. Man, I had to decode multipart binary stuff in those
> days and then bring it home with zmodem. Oh God I remember it well... ;>)
> -- > ~Ohmster

yes, kermit, too. --Loren

by **Ohmste** » Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:24:05

Quote:> dunno about rtin, but tin does (the binary on the cygwin site). not
> any hot link stuff, tho, so you have to copy/paste urls.

Oh no, not cygwin. I tried that once and am not going to mess with that
anymore. Just a straight up linux box for me. I can ssh to my linux box or
vnc to it if I am too lazy to turn 90 degrees to the right. ;>)

Quote:>> binary stuff but slrn brought me back to the old days when all I had
>> was a dial up shell account and had to use tin for everything. It
>> worked and it did the job very well. Man, I had to decode multipart
>> binary stuff in those days and then bring it home with zmodem. Oh God
>> I remember it well... ;>) -- > ~Ohmster

> yes, kermit, too. --Loren

Oh gosh, kermit! Phew, those were the days. Not particularly good ones with
respect with what we have today but we learned and it was fun. :)

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by **lcoe** » Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:41:22

>> dunno about rtin, but tin does (the binary on the cygwin site). not
>> any hot link stuff, tho, so you have to copy/paste urls.
> Oh no, not cygwin. I tried that once and am not going to mess with that
> anymore. Just a straight up linux box for me. I can ssh to my linux box or

i didn't mean to say it only runs there, just that is the environment
that i have it in now, it was the only decent news reader that was
pre-compiled. my cygwin experience is very recent, and totally
satisfying, i recommend it to anyone stuck on a dos box, it helps
to have a cable modem, tho.

Quote:> vnc to it if I am too lazy to turn 90 degrees to the right. ;>)

my console sw allows sharing the kvm between linux and windoze hosts.

Quote:>>> binary stuff but slrn brought me back to the old days when all I had
>>> was a dial up shell account and had to use tin for everything. It
>>> worked and it did the job very well. Man, I had to decode multipart
>>> binary stuff in those days and then bring it home with zmodem. Oh God
>>> I remember it well... ;>) -- > ~Ohmster >> >> yes, kermit, too. --Loren
> Oh gosh, kermit! Phew, those were the days. Not particularly good ones with
> respect with what we have today but we learned and it was fun. :) > -- > ~Ohmster

an office mate had kermit dialing out to stock quote service every 5min
requesting prices on issues anyone wanted to follow (about 40 or so).
the modem was under the floor in a machine room, secure and inconspicuous.

we had an nfs mounted file everyone could read from anywhere on the wan
which had several weeks of prices tabulated, right up the the last (5)
minute. low tech, this was 1990, but very useful. --Loren

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