Re: Yarn and GUI news/mail
From: Michael Raiteri (mraiteri@one.net.au)
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 21:18:36 +1100
Richard Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 31 May 1998, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Ill try again (fool that I am):
>>
>> Why do dedicated yarn users like yarn better than the window/graphics
>> based, GUI news and mail readers?
>
>Because it present news/mail text in a nice large 80x24 format (or in
>whatever mode you're in), which I find causes less eye strain over time,
>and because it uses well-defined keystroke commands instead of being so
>dependent on the mouse.
>
>I like slrn for much the same reasons, though I prefer Yarn.
>
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> -Rich Steiner >>>---> rsteiner@skypoint.com >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> Written online using Pine 3.96 for Linux (Red Hat)!
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Couldn't have said it any better. I'll just add a couple more things -
it is multi-platform. There are OS/2, DOS and WIN95 versions
which all work and look the same as well, it is freeware, can be
automated using batch files and lastly the support files souper, vsoup
and import also have multi-platform versions and all are freeware.
I went from OS/2 to win95 .. no learning curve .. quick and easy.
Cheers
Mike
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