Re: Off-line newsreader

1998-01-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Ian Watkins hat gesagt: // Ian Watkins wrote: > Thanks for all you folks who replied to me regarding an off-line news > reader. > > I d/led slrn and configured it, but as a couple of you suspected it > _doesn't_ support d/l of just headers and the picking of interesting > articles. I can't afford

Re: Off-line newsreader

1998-01-25 Thread John Spence
I've got one more suggestion. I did briefly try a program called "news peruser" an X based offline news fetcher/reader. It looked pretty good at the time but that was prior to my current install and I haven't installed it again. I grabbed it in .rpm format and used alien to install it. http:

Re: Off-line newsreader

1998-01-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote: > Can anybody suggest a good off-line news-reader that I can use with Linux? > I'd prefer one that comes with the Debian distribution - I've looked at > Netscape, but don't like the interface, I'd prefer a text-based one. > > I just want to be able

Re: Off-line newsreader

1998-01-23 Thread John Spence
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 09:54:37PM +0500, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote: You might want to try slrn/slrnpull bo/binary/news/slrn_0.9.3.2-2.deb slrnpull has a very simple config file and will download only the groups you want for reading offline with slrn. I'm not sure if it's possible to just downlo