17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
3:31 a.m.
Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
Trn and tin should both be reasonable. I think trn4 and tin may be a
bit past the mid 80's.
I seem to remember tin was in the early 1990s (wikipedia says 1991) and
trn was probably just a little earlier.
Rn was pretty much the standard newsreader in the old days when we still
did news via serial port.
Trn will build on newer machines and does run in rn mode.
Bill
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:24:22AM +1000, Warren
Toomey wrote:
[...]
After going through several readers, I ended up with "trn". Also, Alpine
has a passable reader.
Then, perhaps a better news reader. Any
preferences :-)
So far I've though of (and found)