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Article #377Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities
From: Nikki Locke
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <kegtuiaa@holly.demon.co.uk>, Mark Rogers wrote: > In Article <VA.000000a7.004966ed@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> Nikki Locke > writes: > > > >Haven't you got anything better to do ? > > Pots and kettles! When I wrote cppnews, the only alternative was snews, which was completely cr@p at the time, and didn't handle mail. > I take it Cppnews > is, to all and intents and purposes, dead now?) Well, I haven't done anything to it for a while. DOS newsreaders now seem to be a niche market, mostly for the visually impaired. I have made some changes to cppnews to make it work better with text-to-speech converters, but that's about it. If you have access to a C++ compiler which supports a DOS extender, then you could just recompile cppnews, and it would work with large groups. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk http://www.trmphrst.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bb05,171858c4f13d835f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb05,public From: Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <VA.000000b2.00c12e0a@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 262883608 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: trmphrst.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.60] References: <kegoqwab@holly.demon.co.uk> <VA.000000a7.004966ed@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> <kegtuiaa@holly.demon.co.uk> Organization: Trumphurst Ltd. Reply-To: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: demon.ip.developers