From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 15:15:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07193 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 15:15:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07187; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 15:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ab09490; 1 Jun 96 23:15 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa03864; 1 Jun 96 23:15 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA02254; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 19:57:34 GMT Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 19:57:34 GMT Message-Id: <199606011957.TAA02254@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jkh@time.cdrom.com CC: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <17741.833649145@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: very disappointed with FreeBSD doc CD-Rom Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I will be taking a personal hand in the next one, and hope to make it > far more useful to FreeBSD people. One of the ideas I have is to > store the news in its original format so that there's some hope of > pointing a news reader at it and organizing the mail with a glimpse > database for quick searching. Apparently, you can get tin to get news from a CDROM news archive. It's not a difficult newsreader to use, and it compiles for things like OS/2 and AmigaDOS, as well as lots of Unix versions; there's even a win32.c file in the source! Perhaps you could put tin binaries for some of the more popular OS's on the CD? -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org