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Article #175Re: Is there a newsreader that...
From: Heikki Kantola
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:00
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Martin <Martin.Schen@MailAndNews.com> informed news.software.readers with the following: >Arjan Drieman wrote: >> On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:30:44 +0200, The Dr >> <psychiatrist@general-hospital.com> wrote: >> >Excuse me but I am a human being and this is the 21st century. slrn seems a >> >product of the 1950's. A user should not have to study a few days first on >> >how to handle a program. The program is supposed to do the dull work, in >> >other words: slrn is out!!! >> >> The program *does* do the dull work. It took me like 2 minutes to >> learn it like an *ordinary* user and just read and post, and it took me > >You made me curious. I downloaded slrn and tried it but I did not succeed. Is >there some tutorial for dummies? Help on how to run Slrn under Windows can be found at <URL:http:// thingy.apana.org.au/%7Efun/slrn/>. >I tried to manage to install it but after I >clicked on C:\program files\slrn.exe my computer tries to start but after a few >seconds nothing happens. Reading 'readme' I get confused. Am I mistaken to >conclude slrn is not compatible using a mouse? Slrn has a primitive mouse support, but good deal of commands are only available via keyboard. >This is total abacadabra for me: [Slrn compilation notes] If you're using precompiled binary you can ignore these instructions. -- Heikki "Hezu" Kantola, <Heikki.Kantola@IKI.FI> L�hett�m�ll� mainoksia tai muuta asiatonta s�hk�postia yll� olevaan osoitteeseen sitoudut maksamaan oikolukupalvelusta FIM500 alkavalta tunnilta.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: faf35,95de3f7a19ed370d X-Google-Attributes: gidfaf35,public X-Google-Thread: 1081d2,95de3f7a19ed370d X-Google-Attributes: gid1081d2,public X-Google-Thread: 10f432,95de3f7a19ed370d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f432,public From: Heikki Kantola <hezu@iki.fi> Subject: Re: Is there a newsreader that... Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: <slrn8mbefr.du81.hezu@tuuri.ling.helsinki.fi> X-Deja-AN: 643421818 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3963ABD3.8DB537A8@general-hospital.com> <slrn8m7obu.cd.qhpxvr@quack.node0911.a2000.nl> <3964D053.CFE83AEA@general-hospital.com> <slrn8ma8st.93.qhpxvr@quack.node0911.a2000.nl> <3965B1E3.A030AE57@MailAndNews.com> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.helsinki.fi X-Trace: oravannahka.helsinki.fi 962968059 16484 128.214.78.4 (7 Jul 2000 11:07:39 GMT) Organization: Department of General Wizardry, Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (OSF1) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jul 2000 11:07:39 GMT Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.tools,hr.news.software,news.software.readers