On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
>
> SLRN will not, to the best of my knowledge, download anything!
> On the system I was suggesting Leafnode does the fetching and
> carrying. SLRN deals with the news when it has arrived, reading,
> replying posting etc (for all that off-line you need slrnpull
> too, which is also on the Mandrake CD - wonderful people they
> think of everything!)
The first time you fire up SLRN you will have to create a .newsrc file
and SLRN and will then download groups from the news server,
specified on the command line or set as an environment variable.
> Leafnode certainly will download headers only and then allow you
> to collect the articles you want to read - you need to set the
> delaybody option to 1. Leafnode has the most intellgible
> configuration file I've ever seen! and the source is very easy to
> compile and install. Martin Holland's Noether linux page I
> mentioned in my last shot will tell you all about it.....
Perhaps an "advantage" of leafnode over slrnpull is that when it is set up
leafnode will grab all the groups on the server. With slrnpull (if I am
not mistaken) you have to specify the groups you want in
/var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf. Well thats what I do.
> slrn is a console programme but you can easily set it up to run
> in an xterm or rxvt when you click on an icon in KDE
True, but its highly configurable non the less. Editors, colours etc
etc...
> Sorry - that's enough evangelism for tonight.
> HTH
>
> Glyn M.
>
Paul
Weycrest Solutions Limited
http://www.weycrest.co.uk
