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Re: Is there a newsreader that...

#175
From: Heikki Kantola
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>
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osoitteeseen sitoudut maksamaan oikolukupalvelusta FIM500 alkavalta
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