From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"  wrote:
>
>I wish we had a tapcis like choice, why isn't there a lynx like news reader
>(text mode)?

If you look around, you should be able to find the Win32 version of YARN
and a suitable SOUP maker. I use the OS/2 version of YARN, and VSOUP which
is a multithreaded SOUP maker. Look for a 0.9.x version of YARN. It hasn't
been updated for at least 10 years but there's been no need to. Like OS/2,
it just runs.

YARN (Yet Another RN (Read News)) is an offline news and email reader that
runs in text mode. It imports and exports mail and posts in SOUP format.

SOUP (Simple Offline Usenet Packet) is a protocol for reading and posting
mail and posts from/to mail and news servers.

In the finest Unix / Linux tradition, setting up a YARN/SOUP installation
is a "some assembly required" task. All the parts are there, you
just have to bolt them together to suit your particular requirements.

A good friend and one-time OS/2 advocate originally introduced me to YARN.
He later converted to Linux, and years later still bemoans the fact that he
has yet to find a news/mail program for Linux that is as powerful and easy
to use as YARN was. (YARN was never ported to Linux, and the author went
AWOL with the source code.)

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
 preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
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