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Re: Turning rn into a threaded newsreader

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From: Wayne Davison
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 05:06
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Bill Meahan (wwm@pmsmam.UUCP) wrote:
} Where might one find a copy of tn?  Is this just a 'patched' version of rn?

Tn is currently my baby, and it is being testing at approx. 7 beta sites
so far.  It is a patched version of rn (with about 160k of new code, and
60k of patches) that maintains a database of reference tree information
(threads of discussion) and uses this information to help the user select
discussions and read them in an understandable order.  Everything is
properly ifdef'ed into the source, so it could conceivably be integrated
with some future release of rn and allow the installer to decide whether
to include the thread-handling.  It even allows the user to run it as
though it were a "normal" rn, or the extended "tn".  In fact, it can do
both at once if the installer has decided to only process selected groups.

} We're running rn pl44 now.  Could someone send me the files/patches by email
} please (I don't really have FTP access)?

If you're willing to devote some time to providing me with some product
feedback, mail me the particulars of your flavor of un*x you're running.
We currently are only guarenteed to run on BSD-type systems, with System
V porting "in the works."  Having rn pl44 (as you mention) is also a
requirement.
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Subject: Re: Turning rn into a threaded newsreader
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Date: 4 Mar 90 05:06:24 GMT
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