From: Davide Barbieri <paci@chiara.dei.unipd.it>
Subject: plor, PLUTO Linux Offline QWK Reader
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:07:13 GMT

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  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 ;-)


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Davide Barbieri - paci@pluto.linux.it - paci@debian.org
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