From: Davide Barbieri <paci@chiara.dei.unipd.it> Subject: plor, PLUTO Linux Offline QWK Reader Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:07:13 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PLOR - PLUTO Linux Offline Reader v. 0.3.2 The latest version of PLOR is available on ftp.pluto.linux.it:/pub/developers Why use plor ============ You could wonder why plor exists. Well, let me stress that plor is an OFFLINE News & Mail READER. This is useful for people that use a modem, or people which can use the computer only at home, where there is a Linux Box without an internet connection. There are a lot of programs for people who want to read mail and news offline, but none of this has all the features that I want. These are: o the ability to use my real mailbox and my real .newsrc, so I can read news & mail both when I am at university (with a full internet connection), and when I am at home offline, without loosing track of what I have already read. o the ability to be used with a TCP/IP connection (PPP, SLIP, etc.) or with a terminal one (sz and rz are always 10% faster than a PPP connection). o the ability to be run on my provider server, so when I connect I have only to download my `gzip -9' news & mail packet. Those abilities are achieved with uqwk and a uqwk reader. uqwk already exists for Linux, but there's no good uqwk reader (I hate atp!). So I wrote plor. Offline reading with PLOR - miniHOWTO ===================================== I use: uqwk +m +n -r +L to download news & mail on my provider server (or on a machine at university); then I pack all the *.MSG file in a newsmail.zip file with `gzip -9' These file can be put on a floppy disk, if I am in console at university, or can be downloaded via my PPP connection, or also using minicom. This is versatile. When I have newsmail.zip at home, I simply unzip it, and use plor to read and post. When plor exits, it will create a REPLY.zip file, which I'll uploaded next time I connect (or go to university), and post my new mail messages and news posts with uqwk. For more information about uqwk: man uqwk ;-) - -- Davide Barbieri - paci@pluto.linux.it - paci@debian.org PGP fingerprint = CD 8D A9 1E DB 0C B0 16 F8 2F BF 63 52 49 8B A8 - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNNHCdFrUI/eHXJZ5AQGlEgQAqYUaAbanTsf0VUuCRhh8+micoHXlhKCX 9n/j2I+eyiBsZPKtbqGAVn4gik4VgJOtYhMPTnxkGAUoAQURWcEjLUslEr98Ba03 uV5MPRgxYV+fo4ok+qgedGp3a3CdtXSkqm52Gy0qPBqY/pH3iLW0JO+h+sm1HwMQ RLHXm+Cvx0o= =nw3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----