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18. xrn

18.1 comp.os.linux.announce

Now that you have knews, subscribe to and look in c.o.l.a for the following: xrn, srln, slang

18.2 xrn

x-read-news is a sophisticated bench, with an old style appearence, and no tree of articles. However it is excellent fro use with knews, as it selects the groups that go into .newsrc

18.3 SLANG

This isn't a news reader but you install it for slrn.

        ./configure
        make
        make install    # root

18.4 slrn

This works on the console, and in a colour xterm. It uses the SLANG VDU library, which you might fetch and install.

        ./configure     # I think the domain went into a file somewhere
        make
        make install    # root

18.5 Make:gcc:ld: SIGNAL 11

damn

cd /gps_sess/9605/0526/slrn/src/objs; gcc slrn.o group.o misc.o clientlib.o
nntp.o art.o post.o startup.o help.o hash.o score.o uudecode.o mime.o menu.o
-o slrn -L/usr/lib -lslang 
gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11

        ftp space.mit.edu
        binary
        hash
        cd /pub/davis/slrn
        ls 
        mget ...
        cd ../slang
        ls 
        mget ...
        quit


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