Re: Offline News/Mail Reader & Window System

[glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

[cross-posted to csa2c]

In article <15079@ceylon.gte.com>, Steve Belczyk writes...
> 
> In article <CCFx97.E89@ucdavis.edu> pthirose@nachos.engr.ucdavis.edu (Paul Hirose) writes:
> >I am familiar with QWK, and various other formats.  I have the material
> >for my Unix (SunOS actually) site, using uqwk-1.4.
> 
> I'd strongly suggest upgrading to the latest verion of uqwk, 1.7.
> 
>        ftp.gte.com:/pub/uqwk/uqwk1.7.tar.Z
> 
> I'd be happy to email it to anyone who wants it.  (uqwk is a Unix
> program that converts mail and news into a packet for offline reading.)

The problem I have with offline readers is that my Unix hosts are not
the news servers; rn and nn make a connection to another machine on the
network.

I like the MuGS offline reader, but it is difficult to use for news because
of this.  Does uqwk assume that the local host is a news server, or does
it make a network call to get around this problem?

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	G. Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca