OS-Independant newsreader

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Ted Present

Hello all,

I'm looking for an OS-Independent newsreader for the NNTP protocol. Maybe
like an executable jar file. I'd like to run it off of a USB thumb drive,
and could be using it both on LINUX and WinXP, so I'd like to not have two
different binaries. Any ideas? My search so far has been fruitless...

Thanks,
Ted
 
Hello all,

I'm looking for an OS-Independent newsreader for the NNTP protocol. Maybe
like an executable jar file. I'd like to run it off of a USB thumb drive,
and could be using it both on LINUX and WinXP, so I'd like to not have two
different binaries. Any ideas? My search so far has been fruitless...

Thanks,
Ted
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I've been getting comfortable using Thunderbird across different platforms, but
would be nice to have one single program to use whereever you needed it. With
different file systems like FAT32, NTFS, EFS, UFS, etc. it might be a big
undertaking.

Jack
 
mercoledì 16 novembre 2005 Ted Present ha scritto:

XPN, it's written in Python:
http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html
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Cousin MLC ....

I've been using XPN on Debian Linux for several months
and it is a nice newsreader ....

However, not the program itself, but the program requirements
might be a bit heavy for a thumb drive install ....

o Python Interpreter
o gtk2 runtime
 
Great, thanks everyone. I'll take a look. Portable Thunderbird looks like
a winner, but does anyone know if I might be able to get only the newsreader
components of it? I have a mail front-end that I'm pretty happy with, and
don't need it on a USB key.

Thanks a lot.
 
I'm looking for an OS-Independent newsreader for the NNTP protocol.
Cousin MLC ....

I've been using XPN on Debian Linux for several months
and it is a nice newsreader ....

However, not the program itself, but the program requirements
might be a bit heavy for a thumb drive install ....

o Python Interpreter
o gtk2 runtime
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Hi Cousin Stanley ...
of course the Python Interpreter and the GTK2 runtime should be
installed on the host system, not on usb pen.
Just like the Java interpreter for .jar files.
 
Hi Cousin Stanley ...
of course the Python Interpreter and the GTK2 runtime should be
installed on the host system, not on usb pen.
Just like the Java interpreter for .jar files.
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Cousin Antonio ....

Maybe a B I G thumb could work ............... :-)


P.S. ....

I think you and Cousin MLC might be neighbors,
but I'm not certain about that ....
 
giovedì 17 novembre 2005 Cousin Stanley ha scritto:
P.S. ....
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I think you and Cousin MLC might be neighbors,
but I'm not certain about that ....
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Ciao Cousin Stanley,
as you know we're both Italian, but I don't think we're also neighbors, even
if Italy is pretty small compared to your land... :-)
 
Hi Cousin Stanley ...
Cousin Antonio ....

Maybe a B I G thumb could work ............... :-)
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I don't think so, it depends on the number of the groups you subscribe,
and the frequency of the purge ... in my case (5 groups subscribed) xpn
requires about 5Mbyte of disk space.
A normal thumb is enough ;-)
P.S. ....

I think you and Cousin MLC might be neighbors,
but I'm not certain about that ....
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to be honest I don't know where MLC lives, but we are both Italian and
use it.comp.software.newsreader ;-)
 
giovedì 17 novembre 2005 Cousin Stanley ha scritto:



Ciao Cousin Stanley,
as you know we're both Italian, but I don't think we're also neighbors, even
if Italy is pretty small compared to your land... :-)
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Ciao Cousin MLC ....

I probably should have used the terms fellow countrymen,
e.g. , in-country neighbors ....
 
I don't think so, it depends on the number of the groups you subscribe,
and the frequency of the purge ... in my case (5 groups subscribed) xpn
requires about 5Mbyte of disk space.
A normal thumb is enough ;-)
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Cousin Antonio ....

I should have been a bit more explicit
with my attempt at bit of humor ...... :-)

Maybe if the thumb was B I G enough
then it could also accomodate the JRE,
Python, and GTK as well as a couple of
our favorite movies ....

But then we might have to call it a hand
instead of a thumb ....
 
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