On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:09:12 -0500,
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:33:53 -0500 (EST),
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
>
> >> NetTamer works fine as an offline newsreader and PC-PINE is good
> >> for use as an online newsreader.
>
> > So far, beyond unspecified newsgroup access, no one has indicated
> > what form it might take in Arachne. Another browser, Lynx386, like
> > PC-Pine is an offline reader.
^^^^^^^
Typo alert! I really meant to write ONLINE here. Sorry to add
more confusion to a topic that can be confusing enough already.
> PC-PINE is designed as an online reader. In order to use PC-PINE as
> an offline reader you have to save the messages you find online one
> by one into a folder on your hard drive and then access the folder later
> when you are offline. PC-PINE for DOS cannot be set up to start
> automatically downloading all the new messages into a folder as soon as
> it accesses the newsgroup. NetTamer will do that, but not PC-PINE.
You are perfectly correct.
PC-Pine, Lynx386, Trumpet - online.
NetTamer, Minuet, Yarn, etc. - offline.
> > Unlike Lynx386, Arachne does POP e-mail, which is suited
> > to an offline reader.
This is the comparison I was trying to make.
One thing that those people who are using/testing some of the
other NNTP clients may want to check is whether or not they
support authentication (authinfo). I know that PC-Pine (3.96),
Lynx386, NetTamer, uka_ppp (x_news), and Yan (nntp) do. I'm not
sure about Minuet and Trumpet.
Howard E.
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