I beg to differ. The newsreader in Netscape handles all the attachments
and embedded docs I ever run into on usenet.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chip Rose.
Sent: November 12, 1999 4:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
Linux has nothing that even remotely matches Agent/Free Agent, or the
other Windows newsreaders, *PARTICULARLY* in regard to handling binary
files (pics, mp3's). Agent just downloads them and automatically and
quickly opens the file in Winamp or in an photo/image viewer like
VuePro. In Linux you've got to download the file and then start another
helper application to open the file separately - kind of like going out
in the winter cold to crank-start your car and then opening the hood to
manually start it again at every traffic light/stop sign, and then once
you're finished driving it.
A killer-app is one that you'd be willing to change OS's for - the
Agent/Vuepro combination is a killer app in my opinion.
I always use SLRN for news - it is very fast and fairly efficient for
TEXT, but it won't handle binaries hardly at all - at least not without
the tedious manual downloading, saving to a directory and then
re-opening with another application like Winamp or XV photo viewer
etc.. I LOVE Linux, but it's a definite "non-player" in the Usenet
world.. I'd certainly go ahead and purchase a commercial app for Linux
if there were one that was anywhere near the efficiency/ability of
Agent.
