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Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities

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From: Graham E Kinns
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <kegtuiaa@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>(I'd go back to using Cppnews if it handled large groups in a 
>comfortable way, but as I recall it takes ten minutes to load what it 
>can then drops to DOS with a memory error. Just as Snews does, in fact. 

How large is large?  This 'ere DJGPP compiled Snews shows plenty of
Megs free in the lower RH corner ...

Cheers, Graham.
-- 
Graham E. Kinns
Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk
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From: newsmaster@grempc.demon.co.uk (Graham E Kinns)
Subject: Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities
Date: 1997/08/08
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