From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
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Subject: wnews tin elm now on Raven
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:35:15 GMT
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X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hopefully, this should be very beginner friendly.  If it is not,
please feel free to correct me (for the whoppers) or contact me
by email (for the beginners).

As I mentioned earlier, Robert Chalmers sent me his ez-install
disk for wnews/tin/elm so that I could upload it to Raven.  I
have just done so.  In short, this is a binary distribution of
the aforementioned software packages.  This should be EVERYTHING
a beginner needs to get Usenet going on his/her (though I haven't
seen any "her's" roaming around here) Coherent 4.0 (no, it won't
work on Coherent 3.2) system as well as a really good mail program.
The programs are:

wnews - Netnews processing subsystem.  This package will take incoming
        and outgoing batches of news and "deal with them."  You NEED
        this if you intend to send/receive usenet news.  It is fairly
        small and, after Udo Munk's extensive cleanup, quite fast and
        reliable.

tin -   Threaded newsreader.  It has always worked well for me.  This
        program takes the "processed news batches" which wnews spits
        out and puts the articles into some semblance of order for
        you.  It is quite user friendly.

elm -   This is probably the most full-featured email user agent
        around.  It is very forgiving for beginners and also allows
        more advanced users to do lots of "neat things."  It is 
        extremely user friendly.

In order to use the package, you will first need to get freeze, which
I have also sent.  Freeze is the GNU project's version of compress. 
It does a significantly better job of shrinking files.  I typically
get archives that are 20-30% smaller than compress can produce.
I'm not sure how behaved it is under low memory conditions, as I have
lots. :-)  I am tempted to think that it will be a little more of a
memory hog than compress as it uses 18-bit compression rather than
16-bit.

When you get freeze, link it to melt and fcat and it will work
just like compress.  You can do the links like so:

ln freeze /usr/bin/melt
ln freeze /usr/bin/fcat

Of course, you don't have to put them in /usr/bin, but make sure you
put freeze and its links somewhere that your path statement knows
about so you can find them.  Instead of a .Z being appended to the
file, you will find a .F. 

After you have freeze setup (should take you all of 10 seconds),
you can "melt" the "eznews.tar.F" archive.  You type:

melt eznews.tar   (you don't need to add the .F)

Then type:

tar xvf eznews.tar

This will "untar" the files.  Now just follow the INSTRUCTIONS which
were written by Robert.  If there are any problems with this package,
kindly let me know.

Cheers,

Chris

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