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UNIX WEENIE NEWS Tired of everything integrating nicely with acme?  Tired of plumbing,snarfing, and pasting?  Do you want to live on the cutting edge of1995's user interfaces? Introducing Unix Weenie News, "the newsreader with all of the memoryleaks and none of the features"™  Installation:mk local # to install to your $home/bin/386 directorymk install # installs to /386/bin (for sadists only) Use:You must start nntpfs before running UWN, which expects /mnt/news toexist. 'uwnread' is the news reading client; with no arguments, it openscomp.os.plan9.  It takes a single, standard form newsgroup as itsargument.  It's not threaded yet. Initially, to save time, thereader only fetches the 10 most recent message headers. Clicking"More Headers" will fetch more. "Re-read Group" will check thegroup for any new messages that have arrived. 'uwnwrite' is for writing posts.  At this time, it doesn't know aboutreplying to messages, so everything you post will be its own beautifuland unique snowfl^H^H^H^H^H^Hthread.  You can post to multiple groupsby entering them, separated by commands, in the "Newsgroups:" field.The "From:" field needs a standard form "Name <user@domain.tld>".  This software is distributed under the MIT public license. John Floren, 2009john@csplan9.rit.edu