From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben AT msu DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
Date: 28 Jun 2001 11:39:29 -0400
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invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty) writes:

> Don't, by the way, suggest I use another news reader. The alternatives
> make my skin crawl. One comes from Microsoft. Netscape's regularly
> hangs the OS. The only remaining free ones for Windoze I am aware of
> are crummy ports of Unix ones, and get the worst of both worlds, as
> they use the crappy Windoze interface but don't stick to its standards
> and you need a degree in rocket science and advanced linear algebra in
> order to so much as configure them to talk to your ISP's news server,
> let alone actually subscribe a group and read 1 article from it.

Come now, don't exaggerate.  My degree is in electrical
engineering and I've only had one class on linear algebra, but I
manage to use UNIX newsreaders just fine.  (In the interest of
full disclosure, I do, however, have a friend who is a rocket
scientist.)

There are lots of good (and bad) newsreaders listed at the Good
Netkeeping Seal of Approval testing page:
	http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-evaluations.html
You'll notice that Forte Free Agent is on the `failed' list.