Re: [LI] Newsgroup client on Linux

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Girish Kamath proclaimed:
> Can any one tell me some newsgroup clients on Linux - Debian 2.0
> 
> I know there are newsgroup clients in RedHat 6.0 like "nntpget",
> "slrn", "trn" etc. Any one can correct me if Iam wrong.
> 
> I could not find any such client on Debian 2.0.

ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/Debian-2.0/main/binary-i386/news/
lists nn, slrn and trn newsreaders are being available for Debian 2.0

> Also what is the configuration required in my Debian PC's
> to download messages from newsgroups.
> I know Netscape is a newsgroup client, but unfortunatly x-windows is
> not configured in my Debian.

You don't need X to run any of the clients listed above.

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