It uses two C programs to scan the news index and update ".newsrc". It
implements analogons of readnews' -, n, e, N, U, s, f, r, H, q, x and ?
commands, and some of its own -- and of course a uniform way to skip to
the next page or article.
Of course, the fun is that the first lines of an article are
immediately shown; that there is no difference between 'readnews' mode
and 'more' mode; and that it interfaces with Emacs, so you can e.g. run
a compilation in a background window and read your news while you
wait.
If there are any requests (by mail!), I will post to net.sources.
Guido van Rossum, {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!guido
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, (CWI, formerly MC), Amsterdam
/Joe
BTW, Guido, I would be interested in seeing your version. If you have
any nice features not currently in "rnews", I'll look at them and try to
integrate them into "rnews".
--
^-^ Bruce ^-^
University of Maryland, Computer Science
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