Hi Thanks to Manoj, Binad , Thaths and every one who has answered my querry. I think now I have got the info i was looking for. Thanks Again, Girish Kamath. Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:24:53 -0500 From: Manoj Srivastava <<a href="/tpl/Message/614BDIXCL/Editor?[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> Subject: Re: [LI] Newsgroup client on Linux Hi, >>"Girish" == Girish Kamath <<a >href="/tpl/Message/614BDIXCL/Editor?[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> > writes: Girish> I know there are newsgroup clients in RedHat 6.0 like "nntpget", Girish> "slrn", "trn" etc. Any one can correct me if Iam wrong. Girish> I could not find any such client on Debian 2.0. Umm. You couldn't have looked very hard ;-). Admittedly, this is on a potato system, but I found no less than 28 packages that provide some kind of news reader, though not all are created equal. My personal favourite is gnus. manoj ps: This is a useful trick for Debian systems ====================================================================== __> perl -n00le 'm,Filename:.*/news, && print' /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep ^Package Package: semi-gnus Package: chaos Package: nn Package: knews Package: strn Package: communicator-smotif-408 Package: t-gnus Package: emacs20 Package: lynx Package: emacs19 Package: mozilla-mailnews Package: communicator-dmotif-408 Package: communicator-smotif-461 Package: xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn Package: wl Package: gnus Package: slrn-ja Package: xemacs20-nomule Package: tin Package: communicator-smotif-47 Package: lynx-ssl Package: slrn Package: xemacs20-mule Package: wanderlust2 Package: peruser Package: trn Package: netscape3 Package: netscape4 ====================================================================== - -- The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein Manoj Srivastava <<a href="/tpl/Message/614BDIXCL/Editor?[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> <<A HREF ="http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>">http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/></a>; Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E - -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at <A HREF ="http://lists.linux-india.org/">http://lists.linux-india.org/</a> before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.