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From: doublePlusPaleo on 5 Apr 2010 09:34
On 2010-04-05 00:23:43 +1000, Juan I. Cahis
<jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> said:

> Dear John & friends:
>
> John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I use Newswatcher. But Panic is charging big bucks for a commercial
>> client. Is "unison" a better client or the best of the best for the Mac?
>
>> Unison looks better for binary groups (which I do not use).
>>
>>
>> John
>
> For me, the combination of Agent (4.3) for Windows running under
> CrossOver for Mac (9.0) and XQuartz for Mac (2.5) is unsurpassable.
> There isn't any Usenet Client for Mac that it can beat Agent. And it
> can run without any problem in a Mac (Snow Leopard) in that way.
>
> Thanks
> Juan I. Cahis
> Santiago de Chile (South America)

Agent is an excellent application. Panic should take a close look at it
to see how to properly write reliable multi-threaded software.

From: Megabyte on 5 Apr 2010 09:59

On 10-04-05 4:39 AM, in article
1jgh4aj.2k7g4h1vrhdiiN%pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com, "Peter James"
<pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

> Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear John & friends:
>>
>> John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I use Newswatcher. But Panic is charging big bucks for a commercial
>>> client. Is "unison" a better client or the best of the best for the Mac?
>>> Unison looks better for binary groups (which I do not use).
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> For me, the combination of Agent (4.3) for Windows running under
>> CrossOver for Mac (9.0) and XQuartz for Mac (2.5) is unsurpassable.
>> There isn't any Usenet Client for Mac that it can beat Agent. And it
>> can run without any problem in a Mac (Snow Leopard) in that way.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Juan I. Cahis
>> Santiago de Chile (South America)
> How do you get Agent to work under Crossover. I just downloaded the 30
> trial of Crossover and it doesn't support Agent?
> Can you advise please?
>
> Peter

Install Crossover then choose the install unsupported software option, point
Crossover to the install file for Agent 4.3 and install it in to a new
Windows XP bottle. Agent will install and run once installed.

From: Juan I. Cahis on 5 Apr 2010 10:10
Dear Peter James and friends:

pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com (Peter James) wrote:

>Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA(a)attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear John & friends:
>>
>> John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I use Newswatcher. But Panic is charging big bucks for a commercial
>> >client. Is "unison" a better client or the best of the best for the Mac?
>> >Unison looks better for binary groups (which I do not use).
>> >
>> >
>> >John
>>
>> For me, the combination of Agent (4.3) for Windows running under
>> CrossOver for Mac (9.0) and XQuartz for Mac (2.5) is unsurpassable.
>> There isn't any Usenet Client for Mac that it can beat Agent. And it
>> can run without any problem in a Mac (Snow Leopard) in that way.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Juan I. Cahis
>> Santiago de Chile (South America)
>How do you get Agent to work under Crossover. I just downloaded the 30
>trial of Crossover and it doesn't support Agent?
>Can you advise please?
>
>Peter

What I did is very simple: I installed first Agent 4.3 (or any 4.X)
into a WinXP machine, and I selected some groups to monitor. Then I
copied the whole "C:\Agent" folder to my Mac machine, who had
CrossOver (9.0) already installed (and with Ms Internet Explorer 6.0
also already installed in the same bottle). Then, I ran it under
CrossOver (CrossOver->Programs->Run Command) and I selected also "Save
Command to Programs Menu". That's all!!!!!

The mouse works better in the Mac if you have XQuartz 2.5 already
installed too, but it is not mandatory.

I don't know if the same procedure work for Agent 6.0, but version 4.X
is good enough for me, and far better than any other Newsreader.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
From: M-M on 5 Apr 2010 11:46
In article <C7DF48F1.72488%Megabyte.NoSPAM(a)sent.com>,
Megabyte <Megabyte.NoSPAM(a)sent.com> wrote:

> Install Crossover then choose the install unsupported software option, point
> Crossover to the install file for Agent 4.3 and install it in to a new
> Windows XP bottle. Agent will install and run once installed.


You're kidding, right? One big strength for Mac is usenet clients. Why
would *anyone* run usenet on a PC if they had a choice?? There are so
many viruses that hang out there.



--
m-m
http://www.mhmyers.com
From: MacBook on 5 Apr 2010 14:33
In article <g7zl1l4po4.fsf(a)ethel.the.log>,
Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian Gregory <ianji33(a)googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > On 2010-04-02, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
> > > John wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is "unison" a better client or the best of the best for the Mac?
> > >
> > > Just to emphasize how silly your question is, let me tell you that
> > > alpine is the best news client.
> >
> > Whereas I would say slrn is, and Paris Texas is the best film etc.
>
> No, gnus is the best news client, and Blood Simple is the best film!

Buying Unison seems to have straightened out MT-Newswatcher. Instances
of deadly twirling whatsit have gone to nearly zero.

Now that I have to rebuild the filters for name switching devils, I
might try Unison just to see if it fared better or perhaps disappeared
with my iTunes radio station links.
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