Aucbarpa.563 net.news.b utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:glickman Sat Dec 19 01:53:36 1981 mhnews/readnews In our MH implementation, mhnews is the program for reading news. It just prints an article and waits until you hit to go on to the next article until everything is printed. It's pretty nasty for netnews because it vomits on non-existant articles. That is, it gives you a nasty error message for each expired or cancelled article it can't find. Besides that, the interface is only one step above cat(1). readnews, however, can be used to read mhnews just fine I believe. The only thing which may cause problems is that readnews updates ~/.newsrc and mhnews updates ~/.mh_profile. ~/.mh_profile also has a bunch of other information in it that readnews will ignore. Is this what watcgl (whatever) wants to know? Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.