Aihnss.1666 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!karn Thu Feb 4 23:23:02 1982 Display Readnews Program? Has anyone given any thought to writing a replacement for readnews that uses a video terminal effectively? What I would very much like to see when I read the news is a menu display of categories that have new items, allowing me to peruse them in random order. When a category is entered, a new menu, this time showing the items themselves, would be shown. When reading news on a 9600 baud terminal, I find that the time taken to spawn a new process (e.g., page) is often greater than the time necessary to fill a screen. A set of EMACS macros could probably be written to do this job, but they would probably be pretty slow; any custom "display readnews" should do its own screen management. Any ideas or projects-in-progress out there? Phil Karn Bell Labs Indian Hill ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.