Re: Yarn (DOS) -> Linux
From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:39:28 -0400
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>In article: <DDd648D5wOgN090yn@erols.com>,
> mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) wrote:
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>> >> >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.
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>Slrnpull acts as a storage medium for slrn -- I have never used it, as I
>prefer leafnode, but does it act as a news server, or does it just get
>all articles for slrn to read?
That's what I wrote... slrnpull reads newsmessages and stores them onto the
harddrive... slrn is the reader you use to read the newsmessages... offline.
>> >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...
>
>He wanted a linux equivalent.
>
Yup... that's right...
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