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Re: News programs?

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From: Pankaj Narayan
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 22:03
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jae@cs.iastate.edu (Andy Edwards) writes:
>Hey, I just thought of something.  Does anyone have a program
>(maybe called "xnews" or "xnn" or "xrn") that would read the
>network news such as this?
  
	I have, in my .twmrc, the following:

"Read News"	!"xterm -T 'Usenet News' -geometry 80x40+120-120 -e nn &"

	as one the menu options, which works just fine...the window
	vanishes once you're done etc.

	Haven't seen xnn-like stuff, though....
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From: narayan@cs.iastate.edu (Pankaj Narayan)
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Subject: Re: News programs?
Keywords: news, nn, rn, usenet
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Date: 8 Mar 90 22:03:55 GMT
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