Re: Yarn (DOS) -> Linux

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 07:23:47 -0400

>> >I'm looking for a tool that will have approximately the same level of
>> >functionality as YARN. Someone else on the list pointed to Multimail on
>> >clark.net that looks to have the potential.
>> >
>>
>> You mean for use on Linux??? Have a look at slrn and slrnpull. SLRN is the
>> textmode newsreader and SLRNPULL is the "mailer" portion. All in all, a very
>> useful tool and everybit as good (IMHO) as vsoup/yarn.
>
>Eh? Last time I looked, slrn was an on-line nr and slrnpull was the
>portition that could make it work off-line, however, slrnpull isn't the
>best way of doing it, the best way is to use leafnode or somesuch...
>

Uhhh... that's what I said. I use SLRN to read and compose messages and
SLRNPULL to post/mail them. Actually, they work well together and usually come
in the same archive.

>Also, he wanted a soup package because he had a large archive, slrn
>doesn't cope with soup.

I didn't see his "soup" requirement... If he wants the real article... it's
more than possible to run soup/vsoup under the dos emulator. Hmmm... Yarn would
ru well for that matter...

Cheers,

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