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From: mb@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: about off-line News reader....
Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:46:18 +0200
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walter (walter@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:
: Hi, 
: 	Could you pass me a hint where I can find an off-line News reader of
: FreeBSD?
: 			Thanks!
: 						Wang-Yang Li   :)

I'd suggest you set up a newsserver such as INN and feed it with suck or slurp.
INN is in the ports collection, and suck compiles out of the box.
This is what I do and it works great as you can see.

If this is too much effort for you, tin has an '-S' option to save news. However,
the corresponding '-R' option (for reading the news you saved) isn't implemented
yet :-(. So what I did before was to use tin to download the news and gnus v5 (from
within emacs) to read it.

Hope this helps.

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