linux newsreader
Keith Barratt
Used slrn a while ago but looking at other options.
Thanks
--
Keith Barrett
www.barrettpianos.co.uk
burt henry
windows headaches....grin....but thunderbird 3 is nice for windows, and
I have heard for linux as well. it is very close to RC/very stable, and
you can get the latest build from this FTP link
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central-trunk/
the link will get you to the last level sub-dir where you can get
windows mac and linux flavors of the most stable nightly builds. Maybe
you don't like t-bird, but 3.0 is a big leap forward from the 2.23 I was
running. Much better access to screenreaders as well, at least in
windows. I'll be asking you my linux questions here pretty soon.
Have a good one.
Burt Henry
Steve Urbach
<drago...@NOTmindspring.com>
wrote:
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You Like Malware?
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I must; I'm using Windows.
Andrew Hodgson
wrote:
>Anyone on the group using linux for reading newsgroups?
>
>Used slrn a while ago but looking at other options.
Used TRN in console mode, Gnus for Emacs is also good if you "get" the
Emacs environment.
Andrew.
Chris Brannon
> Used TRN in console mode, Gnus for Emacs is also good if you "get" the
> Emacs environment.
Seconded! I use gnus exclusively now.
Unfortunately, trn is not really available today. It is very old. But
I liked it when it was around. Ten years ago, it was one of the standard
offerings on most ISP-provided shell accounts.
slrn is probably the best bet from the console these days, unless you're
willing to learn emacs and gnus.
-- Chris
Keith Barratt
says...
and the gui will get there one day but I still have stability issues
with orca and I am not fond of the default voices.
--
Keith Barrett
www.barrettpianos.co.uk
Keith Barratt
the .slrnrc for best resaults with speakup?
Chris Brannon
> Thanks Chris will take another look at slrn. Anything I should put in
> the .slrnrc for best resaults with speakup?
Keith,
Just for grins, I reinstalled slrn today. Haven't used it in a while.
That was all of 5 minutes ago. I'm using it to read your message and
compose this follow-up. In other words, it works very nicely with
Speakup, out of the box!
You can use the arrow keys to move up and down through the list of groups,
and press enter to select a group. Navigation is similar when viewing
the threads within a group or the messages within a thread.
The cursor is properly shown, so Speakup announces everything as it should.
Good luck,
-- Chris
burt henry
I'll be coming to you lini guys for help hopefully soon.
Burt
Keith Barratt
using slrn to connect to the newsserver and not using leafnode?
I think last time, I got fed up because the tabb to bypass quoted text
did not always seem to work and with long threads, it was a bit of a
pain.
Anyway, will go and get it.
--
Keith Barrett
www.barrettpianos.co.uk
Keith Barratt
says...
> Does orca use espeak, with its robotic voices?
> I'll be coming to you lini guys for help hopefully soon.
> Burt
command line. Also, I have to say that as far as orca is concerned, if
you are used to the stability of windows screenreaders, you may well be
disappointed.
--
Keith Barrett
www.barrettpianos.co.uk
Chris Brannon
> Thanks Chris, will go and fetch it with apt-get. I presume you are
> using slrn to connect to the newsserver and not using leafnode?
Keith,
I haven't bothered with leafnode in a long time. This sort of thing is
nice for dialup, because you can pull news to the local server, and then
read it while you're disconnected. If that's what you want, have a look
at slrnpull, which is distributed with slrn. Gnus has a similar
feature, called gnus-agent. You get the same result,
namely, being able to pull your news, but it's simpler than setting up a
miniature news server.
I have a cable connection, so I just connect directly to the remote server.
Note that many ISPs have policies against pulling news. At least, they
did at one time.
> I think last time, I got fed up because the tabb to bypass quoted text
> did not always seem to work
Yes, most folks just don't know how to quote properly. I've seen long
threads with 5 or more levels of quoting.
-- Chris
Keith Barrett
Looks like I need to look at the servername in the headers.
Regards
Keith Barrett
Chris Brannon
> Just got slrn so will see if this finds the group.
>
> Looks like I need to look at the servername in the headers.
Apparently, you're up and running.
-- Chris
Website: http://the-brannons.com/
Keith Barrett
Yes, seems to be working.
Just one question, when I select a group, I am prompted for the number of
articles.
I presume there is a way to just see the new postings?
Thanks
Keith Barrett
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Chris Brannon
> Just one question, when I select a group, I am prompted for the number of
> articles.
> I presume there is a way to just see the new postings?
Sure. Just hit enter.
You're being prompted because you have hundreds (or thousands) of unread
articles. You'll stop being prompted when the number becomes a little
more manageable. For gnus, the prompting starts when you have 200 or
more unread articles. Not sure about slrn, but it's going to be a
similar number.
There are two options: do a catch-up on the group, to mark everything as
"read", or start slogging through a bunch of old stuff.
-- Chris