From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:31:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B63E929-018A-42F4-8D35-7BE156038134@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81216ABB-D4DF-4A63-B26D-6DB2A5428E1F@johnlabovitz.com>
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On May 8, 2018, at 4:39 PM, John Labovitz <johnl at johnlabovitz.com> wrote:
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> Maybe a bit earlier — 1985–1987? — but I always loved Kenneth Almquist’s ‘vnews’ as a newsreader. There was something incredibly simple and graceful about it. It was curses-based, but at the same time very Unix-y — no BBS-like prompts or extra noise. Minimal and perfect. Many times I’ve tried to build a similar interface on modern systems, and it’s harder than one would think.
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> A few years back I found a shar file of some late vnews distribution. (Sadly, I can’t find a link now — but have the sources if anyone wants.) I was surprised how complicated the C code was, not to mention the build system! No blame to Almquist at all — I’d simply forgotten how difficult it was in the ‘80s to architect software that could work on more than one Unix distribution.
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> I ran vnews, and I think C news, on a Parallel XR300 machine, which was (in theory) a fault-tolerant box with Sun motherboards. That was in Maryland — I was psc!jsl.
I had stashed away comp.sources.unix archives in 2002.
Volumes 1 through 29. I find the below news related items.
Both vnews (Jan 1985) and rn (May 1985) are in volume 1.
[Now it all seems more complicated than needed.]
$ grep news comp.sources.unix/index
newshar The Connoisseur's Shar, version 2
newsweed Newsweed: a program to delete unwanted news articles
readnews.1 Manual page for 2.10.2 readnews(1)
vnews.1 Manual page for 2.10.2 vnews(1)
vnews/part[1-7] Vnews part 1
xfernews xfernews software
pnews.patch Patch to Pnews to save article
newspace newspace - determine newsgroup disk usage
newbatcha Usenet news batcher control program
newbatchb Usenet news batcher control program
newscnt Count unread news articles
2.11news/part[01-08] 2.11 News Documentation and Conversion
2.11news/part[09-10] 2.11 News Miscellaneous Files
2.11news/part[11-19] 2.11 News Source
2.11news/part20 News change log and makefile
2.11news/patch[01-08] Patch #1 for news 2.11 source
multi-feed.c++ Simultaneous multi-site news feeder in C++
vn/part[01-03] The VN news reader
cnews/part[01-14] C News alpha release
vn.jan.88/part[01-05] VN newsreader, 1/88 version
nntp1.5/part[01-09] Network News Transfer Protocol, version 1.5
headers Selectively retrieve news article headers
cnews2/part[01]19] Cnews production release
cnews1/patch1 Cnews production release, Patch1
nn/part[01-15] NN, a Usenet news reader
nn/patch1 NN, a Usenet news reader, Patch1
snefru/part[01-04] Snefru hash and netnews validation ...
nn6.4/part[01-22] NN Newsreader, release 6.4
nn6.4/patch[1-4] NN newsreader, release 6.4
newsxd/part[01-03] Netnews transmission daemon
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-08 16:25 Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 16:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 16:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 17:06 ` arnold
2018-05-08 17:27 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-08 17:42 ` Andy Kosela
2018-05-08 21:27 ` [TUHS] Old Usenet / local communitites Mike Markowski
2018-05-08 17:53 ` [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 18:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 18:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 18:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 19:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:09 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 21:50 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 21:54 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 21:58 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 22:22 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 22:32 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 22:59 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-09 2:01 ` Michael Parson
2018-05-09 1:55 ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 20:01 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-08 21:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:05 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 19:35 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:23 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 19:29 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 0:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 19:26 ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-08 19:48 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54 ` Daniel Camolês
2018-05-08 22:55 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 23:18 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 23:21 ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 23:25 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:22 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:37 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09 0:54 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 17:09 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 16:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 17:01 ` Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 19:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 21:49 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-08 23:39 ` John Labovitz
2018-05-09 0:08 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09 0:11 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09 0:42 ` Warren Toomey
2018-05-09 0:31 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
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