Re: Looking for USENET client recommendations for Windows

On 1/14/2025 9:03 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vm60ou$2fcq3$3@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/13/2025 10:04 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vm3kpd$1vknb$1@dont-email.me>,
Bice Eichler  <eichler2@comcast.net> wrote:
I do old-school -- trn 4.1.  I'm running it right now in

(actually 4.0 test77)

"Windows Subsystem for Linux" in a bash shell on a Windows
machine, so it "runs on Windows" for certain definitions of
the term.

>
Out of curiosity, I build trn from source a few years ago.
Took a little effort but it worked fine.

 I had issues trying to build it several years ago; it used
an old version of some keyboard handling that I had trouble
finding.
 However, now (or, at least, as of some time last year
when I did it) you an just do "sudo apt install trn".
 There was a flurry of interest in keeping it going
about that time; someone was working on updates and
keeping it going, but I haven't looked at that in a while.

I did a source build because I was trying to investigate
how it handled UTF-8 characters. At the time, I demonstrated
that I could post messages using, for example, Tibetan
scripts.
GG had a nasty habit of refactoring 8 bit characters, and
vanilla trn would strip the 8th bit, and not add the correct
headers. This led a lot of mangled posts when people quoted
each other.
pt