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Contents of README:This is version 1.2 PL1 (patchlevel 1) of the tin newsreader. o Compiles & runs on Unix, AmigaDOS & OS/2 (Not finished). o Based more on Notes and tass than rn type newreaders. o Full screen, easy to use with on-line help at all levels. o Reads news locally (ie. /usr/spool/news) and/or via NNTP/INN/CD-ROM. o Supports the XOVER news overview index file standard. o Threads on Subject: and/or Archive-name: mail headers. o Five different operating levels: - Spooldir selection level (CD-ROM only) - Group selection level - Thread selection level - Article selection level - Article viewer o Same interface to mail, pipe, print and save articles. o Auto unpacking of multi-part shar & uuencoded articles. o Killing and auto-selection (hot) of articles. o History of user posted articles. o Reposting of articles from one newsgroup to another. o Batch mode to mail/save new news when user is on holiday. o Random signature generator on a per newsgroup basis. o Builtin NNTP mini-inews & clientlib.c o NNTP extensions XINDEX, XMOTD & XUSER to allow better admin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major improvements over tin 1.2 PL0 are the following: o Added support for ATT 3b2/400 machines. o Added support for DDE Supermax machines. o Added support for DEC Alpha OSF/1 machines. o Added support for Mips & CDC EPIX machines. o Added support for QNX machines. o Added some support for OS/2 machines. o Added more support for Apollo machines. o Added more support for BSDI machines. o Added more support for Convex machines. o Added more support for SysVR4 machines. o Added Xref: processing to mark crossposted articles as read. o Added Lines: number to thread level screen. o Added -DNOVROOTDIR to allow other than newsspool dir for NOV index files. o Added -DNNTP_ABLE as default for machines that have net code in libc. o Added article posting checks. o Added formatting of editor string for more flexibility. o Added better documentation for configuring tind to INSTALL document. o Added support for the poll() syscall if on SysV for aborting indexing. o Changed -M cmd line option so that -c catchup must be expicitly specified. o Changed check for newsgroups on local news machine to use faster algorithm. o Fixed saving with regex pattern that caused SIGSEGV. o Fixed 'g'oto group when new groupname longer than all other groups. o Fixed user aborting of article indexing at lower levels. o Fixed builtin inews to add '.' to lines beginning with a '.'. o Fixed not finding first few articles when reading via nntp. o Fixed config error for include files <sys/time.h> <sys/times.h>. o Fixed builtin inews to check for LIBDIR/[sitename|mailname] files. o Fixed builtin inews to handle &'s correctly in /etc/passwd file. o Fixed typo's in the install rules of the Makefile. o Fixed setup_base() which was being called twice when reading tin indexes. o Fixed get_archive_file() to use opendir()/closedir() dir routines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For info. about the AmigaDOS port read the README.AMI file. For info. about the OS/2 port read the README.OS2 file. For compilation and installation information read the INSTALL file. For more bug fixes, changes & additions read the CHANGES & TODO files. For info. about my NNTP patches read the README.NNTP & INSTALL.NNTP files. For ftp & non-ftp source & binary availability read the FTP file. For an internal overview of tin read the HACKERS file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wish to thank all the people that sent me bug fixes and comments (especially Herman ten Brugge, Clifton Royston & Andreas Wrede). I still want to hear of any bug reports, gripes and comments but *PLEASE* read the INSTALL, TODO and tin.1 manual page before doing anything :-)!. Also please make sure you have the newest release of tin before reporting any problems to me. My time is limited and I don't want to have to backtrack to assist with an old problem when it may have already been fixed in the newest release. I read & reply to questions that are posted to news.software.readers Enjoy Iain (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de) |
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