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Craig Dewick wrote on 14 Jan 2000 in  news.software.readers:

>
>Hi everyone,
>
>It's great to see so much talk about X-based newsreaders, so I looked
>recently at the Xnews home page, and found no support at all for the
>main stomping ground of X-based machines - Unix. Not even a Solaris
>version. 
>
>Did I miss something?

You assumed that the X in XNews stands for X-windows, right? 
Understandable, that's what I thought at first.

>To date I've never used X-based newsreaders because I like PINE and NN,
>but they are quite limited for multimedia support, and since MIME is
>fairly-much an industry standard now, I am looking for decent X-based
>news clients. 
>
>So, what is available in the X-based news client department which
>supports Unix, in particular Solaris (OpenWindows - aka standard X11R6)?
>If anything is available, it has to be offered in at least source form
>before I'd consider using it.
>
>TIA for advice, etc. you can offer.
>
>Regards,
>
>Craig.


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Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> So, what is available in the X-based news client department which supports
> Unix, in particular Solaris (OpenWindows - aka standard X11R6)? If
anything
> is available, it has to be offered in at least source form before I'd
> consider using it.

Well, you could always use Netscape to read newsgroups from Solaris.

-Chris

Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> It's great to see so much talk about X-based newsreaders, so I looked
> recently at the Xnews home page, and found no support at all for the main
> stomping ground of X-based machines - Unix. Not even a Solaris version.
> 
> Did I miss something?

The X in Xnews doesn't mean it's a X-based newsreaders.  It's a Win95
newsreader.

-snip-
> So, what is available in the X-based news client department which supports
> Unix, in particular Solaris (OpenWindows - aka standard X11R6)? If
> anything is available, it has to be offered in at least source form before
> I'd consider using it.
> 
> TIA for advice, etc. you can offer.

Take a look at: <http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html>.

-- 
John B. Moreno

cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) wrote in
<85n37d$iq1$1@lios.apana.org.au>: 

>It's great to see so much talk about X-based newsreaders, so I looked
>recently at the Xnews home page, and found no support at all for the
>main stomping ground of X-based machines - Unix. Not even a Solaris
>version. 
>

X != X-Windows, X = Xi, my nickname.  I just called it Xnews for lack of 
a better name.  Figured I'd change it later on but the name has stuck.

I think there IS actually an Xnews (news for X Windows) whose name I'm 
infringing on.  I haven't heard any complaint though :)

 
-- 
  luu 
author of Xnews - http://xnews.3Dnews.net

cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) wrote:
| [...]
| So, what is available in the X-based news client department which supports
| Unix, in particular Solaris (OpenWindows - aka standard X11R6)? If anything
| is available, it has to be offered in at least source form before I'd
| consider using it.
| 
| TIA for advice, etc. you can offer.

Browsing URL:

    http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html

reveals several X-based clients, but my favorite is knews per:

  Description
  
   Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface. It may be
   distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License.
   
   The current version is 1.0b.1, it's available at
   http://www.matematik.su.se/~kjj/knews-1.0b.1.tar.gz.
   
   The only changes from version 1.0b.0 are XFace support and a few bug
   fixes.
   
  Features
  
     * True threading, with a graphical tree for the threads.
     * Clicking on URLs.
     * Inline images.
     * Full support for reading MIME articles:
          + Handles Content-transfer-encodings QP, base64 and
            [x-]uue[ncode].
          + You may specify different fonts for different charsets.
          + Experimental support for a few encoding schemes for 16 bit
            charsets.
          + Assembly of message/partial articles.
          + Understands multipart/* articles.
          + Uses mailcap-viewers for other content-types.
          + RFC1522 decoding of headers. (Those =?iso8859-1?Q?bl=E4?=
            things)
     * Posting with attachments.
     * Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow
       lines:
          + Background threading of groups in advance.
          + Doesn't have to read the active file on startup.
          + May cache group descriptions in a file between sessions.
          + Can use the "LIST ACTIVE wildmat" nntp extension.
          + Caching of thread information (also between sessions).
          + Internal article cache for recently read articles, maximun
            size 32.
          + Background pre-fetching of up to 32 articles.
          + A mechansim for reading the spool directory.
     * Kill file support. Articles can be
          + marked read (killed), or
          + marked with color blobs (hot),
       based on regular expressions. Also per-group kill files.
     * Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list.
     * XPAT searching.
     * Sorting of threads.
     * Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in
       articles.
     * Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys.
     * Supports multiple nntp servers.
     * Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order.
     * Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases.
       
  Author
  
   Created by Karl-Johan Johnsson, <kjj@matematik.su.se>.


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