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Bill Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
: On Wed, 20 Mar 96 15:17:45, Andrea Rafreider articulated:
: <> Russ 'Argel' LeBar (c621412@silver.missouri.edu) wrote:
: <> : I was wondering if there's a good OFFline Usenet news reader (that will 
: <> : also let you queue up followups and replies) around for an AmiTCP SLIP 
: <> : connection? Thor seems like it might work, but I'd like something more 
: <> : akin to Legacy for BBX not to mention I like Voodoo for e-mail.
: <> 
: <> To read/send news offline you need Tin130gamma, InetUtils 1.4 &
: <> the NewPostNewsSpool utilities (aminet: comm/news/npns.lha).
: <> This is what I actually use to read news offline. Tin is really
: <> great!
: 
: How do you read news OFFLINE with TIN?

By using Inetutils to download the news and running TIN _without_ the -r
option set. It's a bit of a fiddle to set up, and requires careful reading of
the TIN, InetUtils and npns documentation, but once set up it works very
well. I have been using the setup suggested above by Andrea Rafreider
for about six months now. I also use TIN as an online reader (tin -nqr) for
occaisional forays into the binary newsgroups.

Some may not like the non-GUI nature of TIN, but in terms of power I don't
think it is rivalled on the Amiga. I became accustomed to its Curses-based
interface while working under UNIX in any case, and as you know, an entirely
keyboard-based interface, once learned, is very fast indeed to use.

-- Mat.