Re: VSoup for Linux (?)
From: Chin Huang (cthuang@vex.net)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:50:46 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Stefan Kapusniak wrote:
> In list.yarn, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
> >Is there a version of Yarn [planned] for Linux?
> Umm, apologies for being dense, but why Would you want one...?
>
> Why not use Leafnode or pnews/suck [if you don't want to muck about
> setting up a full blown INN install] or an equivalent and use your
> favourite Unix newsreader, say trn, to read from the resulting
> local spool...?
Also, the newest version of slrn (at ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slrn/)
includes the slrnpull program which pulls news from an NNTP server to a
local spool.