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| | Rn (newsreader) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was the first (or one of the very first) newsreaders to take full advantage of character-addressable CRT terminals; previous newsreaders, such as readnews, were mostly line-oriented and designed for use on the printing terminals which were common on the early Unix minicomputers where the Usenet software and network were originated. | | | An even more recent addition to the rn family has been the addition of scoring, which allows a more complex method of evaluating articles to determine whether the user wishes to read them; originally this was implemented in a code fork of trn called strn, but later this was integrated into the official trn distribution. | | | Rn was also notable for three other features it introduced: KILL files, "do the right thing", and automatic configuration. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trn
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| | Newsreader article - Newsreader radio television presenter news journalists broadcast news anchor - What-Means.com |
| | Newsreaders are also computer programs that use Network News Transfer Protocol to read articles on Usenet. | | | Free software for Unix-like clients include Gnus, Sylpheed, Knode, tin, rn (and its subsequent versions rrn, trn and strn), slrn, nn, and xrn. | | | In modern times, technology enables journalists to broadcast from relevant locations, reducing the role of the central presenter to that of a news anchor. |
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http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/Newsreader
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| | Charles Babbage Institute: RESEARCH PROGRAM> Current research |
| | RN (“Read News”) is Unix-based text-mode newsreader and message posting software for Usenet. | | | RN is often described as “second generation” newsreader software, replacing earlier line oriented readers like B News and “readnews” with a screen-oriented interface. | | | The newsreader replaced older newsreaders by utilizing caching (qv) to minimize the utilization of user resources and user wait time. |
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http://www.cbi.umn.edu/shp/entries/rn.html
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| | USENET - A Guide to Netnews |
| | A newsreader is a software program that resides on a remote computer (e.g. | | | There are many newsreader software programs that can be used. | | | A valued feature of newsreaders is whether or not they are a threaded newsreader. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/0302.html
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| | NetNews HowDoI |
| | There are newsreaders available for all the popular computing environments. | | | Some of the newsreaders that apply here at UNH are: o rn, Unix. | | | Most of the concepts apply to other newsreaders, especially to other Unix newsreaders, but the details will vary. |
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http://www.unh.edu/NIS/Docs/Web/NetNews-HowDoI.html
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| | Linux System Administrator's Survival Guide lsg41.htm |
| | Newsreaders vary considerably from the simple to the very complex, from character-based to graphic, and from useful to atrocious. | | | Many newsreaders are currently available with Linux distributions, and more newsreaders are appearing as programmers convert their favorite UNIX or DOS-based newsreaders to work under Linux. | | | The trn newsreader is widely used by UNIX users. |
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http://docs.rinet.ru/LiSys/lsg41.htm
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| | Usenet at the University Chicago |
| | You may invoke trn as `rn', to get the simplified set of features available in the older program; the major difference between the two, at least in their current versions, is the presence of threading and a thread menu in trn. | | | The newsreading software which Networking Services and Information Technologies provides on the NSIT Server Cluster -- harper -- is trn, an improved version of the standard Unix newsreader rn. | | | Versions of trn (and rn) are also available on other shared systems on campus. |
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http://support.uchicago.edu/docs/misc/usenet/ucusenet.html
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| | Quotations in Network Messages |
| | For all the convenience of newsreader software, posting a network message remains a daunting task, both technically and psychologically, and this is one of the main reasons for the gross imbalance between the number of users posting to a newsgroup, and the number restricting themselves to reading only. | | | The newsreader will refer to a template stored in the user's personal directory,[9] and replace the variables with the relevant data from the header of the original message. | | | Other comparable newsreaders are available for other hardware and software platforms. |
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http://www.f.waseda.jp/buda/texts/netquote.html
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| | Computers:Software:Usenet |
| | RN Newsreader Software - Academ Consulting Services is the official repository for the RN news reader software for Unix. |
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http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/History/yahoo/Computers/Software/Usenet
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| | EPQA: What's Your Favorite Newsreader |
| | Besides using Netscapes NewsReader, I have found YA-NW for the Mac to be satisfactory. | | | The emacs editing program has a built-in newsreader called Gnus which can be accessed with the "M-x gnus" command. | | | The Pine email program also supports newsreading, so for people who read mail in Pine, it might be convenient to use it for news as well. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/partners/notes/qanda/newsreaders.html
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| | The Ultimate Kill file - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | Newer newsreader software often provides a more advanced form of filter known as a score file, which can use multiple rules to determine which articles are shown. | | | A kill file (also killfile or bozo bin) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. | | | Some newsreader programs also allow you to specify a time period to keep an author in the kill file. |
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http://www.historymania.com/american_history/Killfile
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| | Accessing Electronic News |
| | It is easier to use than rn and does not require the X environment that xrn needs. | | | Tin is a menu driven threaded newsreader that operates in a text environment. | | | rn is another one of UNIX's text--based newsreader programs. |
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http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~larry/unix/news.html
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| | Hans de Graaff - The Attic - The RN User's Guide to TRN |
| | Actually, I used to read news using xrn, an X program based on rn. | | | In fact, I introduced several rn users to trn in much the same way as described below, and they wouldn't want to give up trn anymore. | | | As you read through the articles in a tree you will see yourself move through the map of the tree, leaving a trace of parentheses. |
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http://degraaff.org/attic/rn2trn.html
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| | ITCWeb: Electronic News Programs at U.Va. |
| | About News: Usenet news can be accessed on all networked computer systems at U.Va. using one of the available newsreader programs. | | | This list of newsreader software is representative, not exhaustive. | | | Available on Unix systems under the X Window System, but performance will be better on a microcomputer. |
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http://www.itc.virginia.edu/netsys/news/newsreaders.html
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| | Technical Support |
| | Newsreader software gives you access to the newsgroup messages which are stored on a central computer at the University. | | | For information on using the RN newsreader, see Using the RN Newsreader from the VAX. | | | Newsreader programs are also available as standalone products, or are bundled with Web browsers. |
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http://www.support.u-net.net/intro.htm
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| | Alt.support.childfree Killfiles FAQ |
| | If you don't know what an article or post is, what a newsreader is, or what headers are and how to display them, you should probably put in some time with the help files on your newsreader before you try to follow this FAQ. | | | America Online's proprietary software also does not support killfiling, and AOL is set up so that you cannot use normal newsreader software. | | | Sally can tell her newsreader not to display any articles with "Dorothea Salo" or "dorothea@softhome.net" in the From: header. |
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http://members.terracom.net/~dorothea/killfaq.html
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| | NewsReaders.com: Unix/Linux newsreaders |
| | Netscape (link is to their download archive) puts a newsreader in some versions of their software. | | | Knews: by Karl-Johan Johnsson, an X Window newsreader. | | | Gnus: is the mail client and newsreader for Emacs. |
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http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html
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| | Usenet News |
| | The slrn newsreader is an free NNTP based threaded newsreader for Unix, VMS, and OS/2 systems. | | | It was also developed to minimize the use of computer resources when running on computers with limited memory capabilities at the sacrifice of some speed. | | | It includes everything from a general knowledge of Usenet that a beginning user should know to managing newsfeeds and users to writing software for reading and feeding. |
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http://www.oceanwave.com/technical-resources/unix-admin/news.html
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| | Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Usenet |
| | NewsReaders.com - Explanation of Usenet and list of newsreaders and other Usenet-related software. | | | SLRN - Threaded internet newsreader for Unix, VMS, OS/2, and Win32 systems. | | | AllNews - Freeware newsreader for Windows 3.x/9x/NT that "should" also work in Win2K, XP, OS/2. |
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http://www.reference.com/Dir/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Usenet
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| | ECN No Name Newsletter: September, 1993 |
| | RN attempts to minimize the amount of "dead" time spent reading news. | | | In order to use XRN, you must be running the X window system or OpenWindows. | | | Comparing the following examples will illustrate these differences by demonstrating how to subscribe to the newsgroup purdue.ecn.announce with each newsreader. |
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http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Newsletters/1993.September/Reading_News_At_Purdue
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| | Kill Files |
| | If your newsreader does not support kill files, you may want to consider upgrading to one that does. | | | This feature is implemented as a "kill file", that contains instructions to your newsreader about how to filter out unwanted articles. | | | You can kill all articles cross-posted to specific groups, for example, or kill any article with a particular name or phrase appearing anywhere in the header. |
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http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/killfiles.html
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| | Mail with the Newsgroups: header may be a courtesy copy (like this one) or it may be an email-only reply. | | | If you are using a normal mailer, even if your reply has a Newsgroups: panix.test header, it is only mailed to the recipient and not posted since news is never invoked. | | | (Don't use Pine.) Some news/mail combinations, notably those based on 'rn,' include a Newsgroups: header in email-only replies. |
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http://www.panix.com/~dc/faq/pine_headers
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| | The OCF Hypertext Help System: Reading Usenet News |
| | newsreader has become popular on UNIX platforms with it's philosophy of "No News is good news." New users may be interested in the UNLhelp Guide to the NN newsreader and in the list of Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the NN Newsreader that is regularly posted to the news.software.nn newsgroup. | | | If you are looking for one, you may want to read the USENET Software: History and Sources document and the news.software.readers newsgroup. | | | Also full of information is the Usenet Information Center. |
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http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/help/usenet
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| | Reading Usenet Newsgroups from Your UNIX Account with Trn |
| | There are others, but trn is as good a program to start with as any, for the usual reasons: It works, and it's free. | | | If the file doesn't already exist, rn or trn asks you whether it should format the file as a plain file or as a folder (a special kind of file that usually contains mail messages). | | | The trn or rn program asks a question like this: |
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http://net.gurus.com/shell/trn.phtml?FRAME=no
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| | Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ FAQ |
| | Followup-To: news.software.readers In tin and the rn family of tools (Pnews, rn, trn, strn) you can use environment variables to customize your headers. | | | These newsreaders use the FROM, REPLYTO, and ORGANIZATION environment variables, if they are set, to determine the From, Reply-To, and Organization headers. | | | Followup-To: news.newusers.questions Below are instructions for customizing your headers in different mailers and newsreaders. |
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http://www.non.com/news.answers/signature_finger_faq.html
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| | Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available. | | | It also permits users to read and post news (using a modified version of "rn" or other user agents) from machines which cannot or choose not to install the USENET news software. | | | This interface also uses full-screen display with direct positioning, but it includes many other useful features and is very popular with many regular net readers. |
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~neitsch/sunsite.ualberta.ca/sun-info/sunflash/1991/Jun/30.03.usenet
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| | Computers Software Internet Clients Usenet Unix |
| | A threaded newsreader with an X Window interface. | | | getbinnews - A Linux newsreader developed in C using the GTK user interface. | | | PAN - A multithreaded Usenet newsreader for GNOME, a GUI desktop for Unix systems. |
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http://www.iper1.com/iper1-odp/scat/id/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Usenet/Unix
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| | How to read Usenet news - Newsreader using various newsreaders - OIT Help Desk |
| | There are four supported newsreaders on the OIT systems, plus the possibility of reading news via the Netscape Web browser. | | | rn - ReadNews: old program for reading Usenet news, original replacement for archaic 'readnews' program. | | | To do this, type at the Unix prompt: |
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| | Linux Links - The Linux Portal: Software/Internet/News |
| | Beside the usual features of a newsreader, slrn supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header. | | | SLRN is an NNTP based newsreader for Unix. | | | a linux newsreader developed in C using the GTK user interface. |
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Internet/News
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| | FAQ: Advice about crossposting |
| | I have heard that there are some newsreader programs that do not allow editing the headers. | | | The exact syntax will vary between newsreader programs, but the basic idea in terms of a Unix rn-type notation is | | | The problem with this method is that even if it should work, it is not guaranteed to do so. |
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http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/crospost.html
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| | The instructions given immediately below for altering the kill file are for those people using the "rn" newsreader on a UNIX system only. | | | The "h" after the "/" tells the newsreader to search the header only. | | | Alternatively, you can edit the kill file with your system editor while outside of rn. |
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http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/astro/ans021.html
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| | Help for the trn Newsreader |
| | The newsreader program which is described in this document is called trn ("threaded read news"). | | | The crossposting mechanism allows you to post one copy of the article simultaneously to more than one newsgroup; only that one copy is transmitted, and with some operating systems, including UNIX, only one copy needs to be stored on each computer. | | | The traditional method uses a file named.signature, which you can create using any text-editing program (e.g. |
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http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/trnhelp.html
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| | Stan Barber -- Original author of the NNTP extensions to the newsreaders that are part of Bnews. | | | Geoff Collyer -- Original author of the OVERVIEW database proposal and one of the original authors of CNEWS. | | | Phil Lapsey -- Original author of the UNIX reference implementation. |
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http://home.c2i.net/arnt/sensorhick/my_nntp_errors.html
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| | [news.software.readers] trn newsreader FAQ, part 1: Basics |
| | From: @tigerden.com (Peter J. Kappesser) Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: [news.software.readers] trn newsreader FAQ, part 1: Basics Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 9:47:01 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: @tigerden.com (Peter J. Kappesser) Summary: Frequently-asked questions (and answers) about trn, a powerful, command-based USENET newsreader, and associated utility programs. | | | You may also be interested in the "rn KILL file FAQ" (See Subject: OODA below to find it) for information regarding killfiles. | | | It is possible to change the locations of your KILL files, by setting the environment variables KILLGLOBAL and KILLLOCAL. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/trn-faq/part1
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| | Because rn uses the same.newsrc file as nn, you can use one of the search-and-replace methods described above. | | | On Unix systems, however, you will have to use a "newsreader" program. | | | You'll be asked if you want to save it in "mailbox format." In most cases, you can answer with an n (which will strip off the header). |
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http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/docs/bdgtti.etx
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| | alt.usenet.offline-reader: YAFAQ (Yet Another FAQ) |
| | On the Unix end, they may run a news reader program such as rn, trn, nn, tin, etc. for news, and a mail reader such as mail, elm, etc. for email. | | | You can also do so with a text editor, as the ".newsrc" file is simple text., and there exist special programs for maintaining this file. | | | You can learn the full details of trn kill files in the rn killfile FAQ, which is regularly posted to news.software.readers. |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/off-line-readers/usenet/yet-another-faq.html
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| | ! Aware: default selections: Usenet Protocol |
| | Rn news reading program, version 4.3 (At comp.sources.unix at UUNET) | | | SLRN - An NNTP based newsreader for Unix, VMS, and OS/2 systems | | | pan-0.11.3 - Threaded GNOME newsreader based on Agent for Windows |
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http://www.rocketaware.com/comm/person/nntp
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| | The Linux News HOWTO: News Readers |
| | When picking a newsreader, you basically want to find something that is easy to use, very configurable by the user, with threading and kill files (to select interesting articles or make the non-interesting ones not appear at all). | | | As a result, there are many well-known newsreaders that port easily to Linux in particular. | | | Tin is a threaded newsreader generally intended to be easy for new users. |
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http://www.tdl.com/~netex/html/News-HOWTO-5.html
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| | Timo: Cancelling NG postings |
| | In the tin newsreader the cancel command is D. If you don't want to lose what you wrote, first save your message to a file with the s option if you are using rn. | | | A: How one cancels one's own posting is naturally dependent on the newsreader program that one uses. | | | In other newsreaders check their help function for the cancel command. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2926/tpsrc/cancelpost.html
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| | Unix Answers: How to Kill News Articles or Threads |
| | You can edit your KILL file by entering a CTRL-K sequence when you are in either the (1) newsgroup-selection level or (2) article-selection level. | | | Novice users should follow this procedure rather than edit their KILL files themselves. | | | For more information on the use of KILL files, see the manual pages for your newsreader by typing: |
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http://www.utexas.edu/acits/faqs/unix/News-killfiles.html
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| | Unless you have a system manager who has created a '.defaultnewsrc' file for your machine, before using the newsreader 'nn' for the first time it is essential to create a '.newsrc' file in your home directory. | | | You may also find it convenient to create such a '.newsrc' file before using mxrn but it is not so essential. | | | All newsreaders use a file in your home directory called '.newsrc'. |
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http://www.dtp.fmph.uniba.sk/unixguide/node156.html
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| | New Newsgroups |
| | Reminder: If you want to change the newsgroups you subscribe to, the program eep is an excellent tool for doing so. | | | 5) As 4, except that the information is stored in a format compatible with the rn news reader (.rnlast). | | | You will be asked if you wish to add new newsgroups to your.newsrc file ('nn' will attempt to store information compatible with 'rn'). |
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http://www.panix.com/help/usenet.newgroups.html
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| | Technical Briefs - ROHAN help Files - rn |
| | rn is a UNIX-based newsreader that operates on three levels: | | | SDSU Faculty and Students may send questions about software on ROHAN or ROHAN UNIX problems to problems@rohan.sdsu.edu | | | Technical Briefs - ROHAN help Files - rn |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/help/rn.html
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| | The Buffer - February 1995 |
| | A survival document describing the rn newsreader is available in MRB 22, BA 367 and the Faculty Computing Lab (GCB 323). | | | News service is provided by the central computer Cassandra but you can read news on Phoebe or Diana/Mercury as well. | | | As these systems become availble, we will be telling you about them in this column. |
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http://www.du.edu/~buffer/february.html
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| | BKTIGFNU.RVW) and assumes that everyone is on a UNIX system with Elm and rn. | | | Fame!) A substantial number of people will have access through UNIX systems, and will have elm and rn available. | | | Even for those who do not, this work is a good guide. |
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http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade/bknavint.rvw
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| | CubeOwner Forums -> Looking for compiled rn or trn |
| | I have the source code, but without a Makefile I'd really like to avoid what I fear would be a long and tedious struggle towards compilation and linking, as it's been over 10 years since I did this sort of thing under ANY version of Unix, let alone OS X. Why do I want this? | | | I have the source code, but without a Makefile I'd really like to avoid what I fear would be a long and tedious struggle towards compilation and linking, as it's been over 10 years since I did this sort of thing under ANY version of Unix, let alone OS X. Why do I want this? | | | I have yet to see a GUI newsreader that was as simple to use as rn/trn. |
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http://www.cubeowner.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7043
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| | SWmud - Commands - RN commands (newsreader) |
| | rn starts up a newsreader similar to UNIX rn. | | | rn -last (group) (#) lists the headers for the last # of posts in a specific group (up to 30). | | | rn -post (group) makes a new post, or do follow-ups from within rn. |
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http://www.swmud.org/gameinfo/commands/rn.htm
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| | NIC - news.software.readers |
| | Discussion of software used to read network news. | | | Pine Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) This posting contains a list of frequently asked questions (and answers) for the Pine Mail User Agent and Newsreader. | | | Potential topics for discussion include: - rn and its variants - tass - xrn - gnus - Other platforms (Mac, MSDOS, VM) - design issues - if you decide to write or significantly modify one. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/groups-html/news.software.readers.html
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| | Workbook for SLD Offline Users - Information Resources |
| | To invoke the rn newsreader from Unix, type | | | You can keep up with the latest news on topics such as physics research, accelerator technologies or hamster racing. | | | To get to newsgroups you need to run a program called a "newsreader." Which newsreader program you run depends on which host your are running on. |
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http://www-sld.slac.stanford.edu/sldwww/workbook/info_resources.html
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| | Secure X Windows with SSH |
| | If you already use X Windows on an MS Windows personal computer at UIC, then chances are you're using Hummingbird Communications' Exceed X Server. | | | This allows your personal computer to do what it does best -- display output -- while the remote UNIX system does what it does best -- running programs or number crunching. | | | There are two classes of UNIX programs that benefit from using a X Windows display: number crunching programs that produce graphical output, such as SAS, SPSS, Octave (MATLAB clone), and Maple; and utility programs such as ghostview (PostScript document viewer), xrn (newsreader), info (online IBM manuals on tigger), and xbsub et al. |
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http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn31/xwindows.html
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