Re: kexpress better than krn?

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>]

On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Birger Langkjer wrote:

> Den ons, 06 okt 1999 skrev du:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Bud Beckman wrote:
> > 
> > > Since there have been a couple who have tried it, any compare it to krn?
> > > 
> > > Bud, wondering if I should add it to my rapidly filling up HD
> > 
> > Lacks scoring. Then again, I haven't tried Krn recently. Are the leaks in
> > krn fixed yet ? Is it still a memory hog  ?  
> 
> It doesn't seem slow, it has some more features than kexpress, but it
> doesn't seem to be a good offline reader, it only downloads and keeps
> headers AFAIK.

It also keeps bodies.

I'll answer the previous questions:

Krn does leak.
Krn is a memory hog.

People with 64MB of RAM or people who don't run their newsreaders for
hours at a time probably won't care much about that.

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