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In comp.sys.next.sysadmin eoliver@acc.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
>Lacking extremely productive things to leave our NeXT doing all day, we
>would like to get a _TEXTUAL_ newsreader for the NeXT, ie one that will
>work from the Terminal program or a Dial-Up modem.  Any suggestions and
>FTP sites?  (source requiring compilation is perfectly okay.)

I've had no problems compiling any of the newsreaders out there,
including rn, trn, nn, and tin. They all work pretty much without a
problem, although you need to know some of the tricks of where NeXT
hides things to answer the configuration questions properly. (eg the
NeXT C library is in /usr/lib/libsys_s.a, not /usr/lib/libc.a; sigh.)
Archie can point you to sources.

>Along this same line, does anyone know where to get source/code for a
>TEXT version of UMORIA that will run on the NeXT?

Again, use archie to find out where to get sources, and you should be
able to compile them without much problem. I haven't compiled UMORIA,
but I do have nethack up and running.

>I realize that these are somewhat frivolous requests but all work and no
>playU well you know.

:)

Rollie
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Matt Rollefson ("Rollie")               draphsor@deathstar.stanford.edu
Residential Computing, Stanford University	NeXTmail accepted

In article <T8ZSBY3L@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@acc.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)  
writes:
> Lacking extremely productive things to leave our NeXT doing all day, we
> would like to get a _TEXTUAL_ newsreader for the NeXT, ie one that will

If you don't want to spend a lot of time compiling, there's a precompiled version  
of trn available by anonymous ftp from the purdue archives. If you want it to  
create the threadfiles, you'll need to delve into running the mthreads program.  
Otherwise, it should work right off the bat.

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Brian K. Boonstra    (313) 994-0014,764-6046     kickaha@umich.edu

 "My strength is as the strength of ten because my code is pure."

Thanks everyone for tips in the right direction, we are working on
compiling a newsreader as we speak, although we got interupted when a
user mentioned some missing .h files and so until we get some of those
bugs sorted out, it will be a while before we get news running.

Thanks again,
Erik