Before I attempt to use acme as a newreader I thought I'd load a simple txt file...but did not have great luck. The data were truncated and I got an error message about not being able to load the font type. but again...it was just a simple text file, which I had no trouble concatinating. It looks like there is plenty here in Plan 9 to keep me busy though thanks On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:49 PM, philo wrote: > OK > thank you for the reply. > I see that I do have acme...so I'll go test it out now and see what I can > do with it! > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Fazlul Shahriar > wrote: > > > > If I get that working, about the only other question I have is if > > there is a > > > text-based news reader > > > available for accessing Usenet. > > > > try News in acme, which uses nntpfs(4) > > > > > > >