Shourya Sarcar forced the electrons to say:
> Check out krn which comes with KDE. I guess the name should have
> been knr standing for K news reader but someone had an overdose of
> caffeine and stuck ewith the typo :)
Once upon a time, there was a programmer called Larry Wall who thought
that there is a need for a newsreader. He wrote one called rn, which
later became trn, with the 't' standing for 'threaded'. This newsreader
could thread newsgroup articles - ie, it could understand which article
was a follow up on which, after looking at various headers. rn was named
so because it improved upon readnews, a primitive news reader. With the
kde guys' obsession of having a K interface to anything, they came up
with krn.
Larry later on wrote patch, a very popular tool among unix programmers,
and perl, popular with the whole world.
Among other newsreaders are pine, tin, and the best console based one
of them all, slrn. netscape can also talk NNTP, thus serving as a news
reader for you.
As an aside, knr is short for the official bible of all C programmers
in the world, irrespective of platform - Kernighan and Ritchie's
authoritative "The C Programming Language".
Binand
PS: opinions expressed are as usual, mine and mine alone.
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