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News At The ECN

Sam Kimery

If you would like to read the USENET news, there are a variety of news readers available:

/usr/ecn/rn

RN attempts to minimize the amount of "dead" time spent reading news. RN tries to get things done while the user is reading or deciding whether to read, and attempts to get useful information onto the screen as soon as possible, highlighting spots that the eye makes frequent reference to, like subjects and previously read lines. RN can be run from all ECN terminals and workstations. For more information type "man rn".

/usr/ecn/nn

NN is a `point-and-shoot' news interface program, or a news reader for short (not to be confused with the human news reader). When you use NN, you can decide which of the many news groups you are interested in, and you can unsubscribe to those which don't interest you. NN will let you read the new (and old) articles in each of the groups you subscribe to using a menu-based article selection prior to reading the articles in the news group. NN can be run from all ECN terminals and workstations. For more information type "man nn".

/usr/ecn/X11R5/bin/xrn

XRN is an X-based interface to the news system. Although it isn't based on the RN news reader, XRN uses the same terminology and contains many of the features of RN. In order to use XRN, you must be running the X window system or OpenWindows. For more information about XRN, type "man xrn".

If you need further assistance, please contact your site specialist. You can send e-mail to your site specialist by sending mail to "site". A complete listing of the local site specialists can be found by typing "help ecnnews" and selecting "Sites" from the menu.

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