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- TIN(1) LOCAL TIN(1)
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- NAME
- tin, rtin, cdtin, tind - A Netnews reader
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- SYNOPSIS
- tin/rtin/cdtin/tind [ options ] [ newsgroups ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Tin is a full-screen easy to use Netnews reader. It can read
- news locally (i.e. /usr/spool/news) or remotely (rtin or tin
- -r option) via a NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol)
- server. Cdtin can read news locally and news archived on
- CD-ROM. It will automatically utilize nov (news overview)
- style index files if available locally or via the nntp xover
- command.
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- Tin has five separate levels of operation: Group selection
- level, Spooldir selection level, Group level, Thread level
- and Article level. Use the 'h' (help) command to view a
- list of the commands available at a particular level.
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- On startup tin will show a list of the newsgroups found in
- $HOME/.newsrc. An arrow '->' or highlighted bar will point
- to the first newsgroup. Move to a group by using the
- terminal arrow keys (terminal dependent) or 'j' and 'k'.
- Use PgUp/PgDn (terminal dependent) or Ctrl-U and Ctrl-D to
- page up/down. Enter a newsgroup by pressing RETURN.
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- The TAB key advances to the next newsgroup with unread
- articles and enters it.
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- OPTIONS
- -c create/update index files for every group in
- $HOME/.newsrc or file specified by -f option and
- mark all articles as read.
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- -f file use the specified file of subscribed to
- newsgroups in place of $HOME/.newsrc.
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- -h help listing all command line options.
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- -H brief introduction to tin that is also shown the
- first time it is started.
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- -I dir directory in which to store newsgroup index
- files. Default is $HOME/.tin/.index.
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- -m dir mailbox directory to use. Default is
- $HOME/Mail.
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- -M user mail unread articles to specified user for later
- reading. For more information read section
- Automatic Mailing and Saving New News.
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- -n Only load groups from the active file that are
- also subscribed to in the users .newsrc. This
- allows a noticeable speedup when connecting via
- a slow line.
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- -p program print program with options.
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- -q quick start without checking for new newsgroups.
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- -P purge group index files of articles that no
- longer exist. Care should be taken when using
- this command as it stats each and every article
- in each group that is accessed. On a low speed
- connection this can have an undisirable effect
- and it also knocks the hell out of your
- filesystem.
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- -r read news remotely from the default NNTP server
- specified in the environment variable NNTPSERVER
- or contained in the file /etc/nntpserver.
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- -R read news saved by -S option (not yet
- implemented).
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- -s dir save articles to directory. Default is
- $HOME/News.
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- -S save unread articles for later reading by -R
- option. For more information read section
- Automatic Mailing and Saving New News.
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- -u create/update index files for every group in
- $HOME/.newsrc or file specified by -f option.
- This option is disabled if tin retreives its
- index files via a NNTP server.
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- -U start tin in the background to update index
- files while reading news in the foreground.
- This option is disabled if tin retreives its
- index files via a NNTP server.
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- -v verbose mode for -c -M -S -u and -Z options.
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- -w quick mode to post an article and then exit.
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- -z only start tin if there is any new/unread news.
- If there is news tin will position cursor at
- first group with unread news. Useful for putting
- in login file.
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- -Z check if there is any new/unread news and exit
- with appropriate status. If -v option is
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- specified the number of unread articles in each
- group is printed. An exit code 0 indicates no
- news, 1 that an error occurred and 2 that
- new/unread news exists. Useful for writing
- scripts.
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- Tin can also dynamically change its options by the 'M' menu
- command. Any changes are written to $HOME/.tin/tinrc.
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- The index daemon version, tind, only supports the -f, -h, -I
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- INDEX FILES
- In order to keep track of threads, tin maintains an index
- for each newsgroup. There are a number of methods in which
- index files can be created and updated.
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- The simplest method is that each user creates/updates there
- own index files that are stored in $HOME/.tin/.index. This
- has the advantage that any user can compile and install tin,
- but the disadvantage is that each user is going to be
- creating duplicate files and using precious disk space. A
- good way to keep index files updated is by doing a tin -U
- that will update index files in the background while you are
- reading news in the foreground. You can also update index
- files via the system batcher cron with the -u option:
- 30 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/tin -u
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- A slightly better method is to set tin setuid news and have
- all index files created and updated in the news spool
- directory (i.e. /usr/spool/news/.index). This has the
- advantage that there will only be one copy of the index
- files on each machine on your network, but the disadvantage
- is that you will have tin running setuid news.
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- A better method is to install the tind index file updating
- daemon and have it create and update index files for all
- groups in your active file at regular intervals in the news
- spool directory (i.e. /usr/spool/news/.index). This has the
- advantage that there will only be one copy of the index
- files on each machine on your network and tin must not be
- setuid news, but the disadvantage is that you will have to
- have news permissions to install tind and root permissions
- to install an entry in the cron batcher system to have tind
- regularly update index files.
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- The best method is to install the tind index file updating
- daemon on your NNTP server and have it create and update
- index files for all groups in your active file at regular
- intervals in the news spool directory (i.e.
- /usr/spool/news/.index). This has the advantage that there
- will only be one copy of the index files on the NNTP server
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- for the whole of your network, but the disadvantage is that
- you will have to install my NNTP server patches to allow tin
- to retreive index file from your NNTP server and and you
- must install an entry in the cron batcher system to have
- tind regularly update index files (note that this is the
- method we use on our network of 40-50 machines and have not
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- Entering a group the first time tends to be slow because the
- index file must be built from scratch unless the tind update
- daemon is being used. To alleviate the slowness start tin to
- create all index files for the groups you subscribe to with
- tin -u -v and go for a coffee. Subsequent readings of a
- group will cause incremental updating of the index file.
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- If reading news remotely and locally updating index files
- operation will be somewhat slower because the articles must
- be retreived from the NNTP server.
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- NEWS ADMINISTRATION
- Maintaining Netnews on large networks of machines can be a
- pretty time consuming job as I discovered when I was given
- the job of maintaining our news system and news users.
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- Tin is a News User Agent and so most of the users were
- always asking questions or doing things that could be
- frowned upon by there departments. To releive news admins
- (and especially me) of this features have been added to make
- life easier for news adminstrators.
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- When a user starts tin it is possible to inform them of any
- important changes/information concerning the news system by
- displaying a message of the day (motd) file. The motd file
- should be created in your news lib directory (i.e.
- /usr/lib/news/motd) and should have file permissions set to
- 0644. The motd file will only be displayed if its contents
- is newer than the last time the user started tin. If reading
- news via NNTP my XMOTD patch will have to have been applied
- to your NNTP server.
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- A user starting tin for the first time can be automatically
- subscribed to a list of newsgroups that are deemed
- appropriate by the news administrator. At our site the
- subscriptions file has 125 groups (our active file contains
- over 400 groups with many only being marginally interesting
- to most people). The subscriptions file should be created
- in your news lib directory (i.e.
- /usr/lib/news/subscriptions) and should have file
- permissions set to 0644. If reading news via NNTP my LIST
- SUBSCRIPTIONS patch will have to have been applied to your
- NNTP server.
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- If my NNTP XUSER patch has been applied to your NNTP server
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- NNTP logfile for usage statistics.
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- SCREEN FORMAT
- Tin has five separate levels of operation: Group selection
- level, Spooldir selection level, Group level, Thread level
- and Article level.
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- At the Group Selection level the title displays the number
- of subscribed groups. The newsgroups are displayed on the
- left of the screen with the number of unread articles
- displayed on the same line in the middle of the screen.
- <Selection Num> <Newsgroup> <Num of unread articles>
- i.e.,
- 1 alt.sources 10
- 2 comp.sources.misc 3
- 3 news.software.readers 12
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- At the Group level the title contains the name of the group,
- the number of conversation threads and total number of
- articles i.e., alt.sources (7 23). If the group has been
- setup not to thread articles (i.e., alt.sources is in
- $(HOME)/.tin/unthread) the title will be alt.sources (U 23).
- There are two possible display formats as shown below:
- <Selection Num> <Unread> <Responses> <Subject> <Author>
- i.e.,
- 1 + 3 Bnews sources? iain@anl433.uucp
- 2 1 This question has ether@net
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- <Selection Num> <Unread> <Responses> <Subject (longer)>
- i.e.,
- 1 + 3 Bnews sources?
- 2 1 This question has a longer subject line
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- At the Article level the page header has the following
- format:
- <Date posted> <Newsgroup> <Thread 1 of n>
- <Article Num> <Subject> <Num of responses in thread>
- <Author> <Organization>
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- <Article body>
- i.e.,
- 24 Jul 15:20:03 GMT alt.sources Thread 1 of 2
- Article 452 Bnews sources? 3 responses
- iain@anl433.uucp Organization name
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- <Article boby>
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- COMMON MOVING KEYS
- This table shows the common keys/commands for moving at all
- five levels within tin.
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- Beginning of list/article Home 1 (^R or g at article level)
- End of list/article End $ (also G at article level)
- Page Up PgUp ^U or ^B or b
- Page Down PgDn ^D or ^F or <SPACE>
- Line Up Up arrow k (not at article level)
- Line Down Down arrow j (not at article level)
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- COMMON EDITING COMMANDS
- An emacs style editing package allows the easy editing of
- input strings. An history list allows the easy reuse of
- previously entered strings. The following commands are
- available when editing a string:
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- ^A,^E move to beginning or end of line, respectively.
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- ^F,^B nondestructive move forward or back one location,
- respectively.
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- ^D delete the character currently under the cursor,
- or send EOF if no characters in the buffer.
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- ^H,<DEL> delete character left of the cursor.
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- ^K delete from cursor to end of line.
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- ^P,^N move through history, previous and next,
- respectively.
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- ^L,^R redraw the current line.
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- <CR> places line on history list if nonblank, appends
- newline and returns to the caller.
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- <ESC> aborts the present editing operation.
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- NEWSGROUP SELECTION COMMANDS
- 4 Select group 4.
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- ^K Delete current group from $HOME/.newsrc file.
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- ^L Redraw page.
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- ^R Reset $HOME/.newsrc file.
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- <CR> Read current group.
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- <TAB> View next group with unread news. Will wrap around
- to the beginning of the group selection list
- looking for unread groups.
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- B Mail a bug report or comment to the author. This
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- c Mark current group as all read with confirmation
- and goto next group in group selection list.
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- C Mark current group as all read and goto next
- unread group in group selection list.
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- d Toggle display to show just the groupname or the
- groupname and the groups description.
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- g Choose a new group by name. The position of the
- group within the group list will also be asked
- for. By entering '1' the new group will be the
- first group in the displayed list, by entering '8'
- the group will be the eighth group in the list
- etc. By entering '$' the group will be the last
- group displayed.
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- h Help screen of newsgroup selection commands.
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- H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom
- of the screen.
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- I Toggle inverse video.
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- l List and allow selection of the available spool
- directories. This feature requires a special
- library to be linked with tin to create cdtin
- which can then read news from an active news feed
- and also from multiple CD-ROMs.
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- m Move the current group within the group selection
- list. By entering '1' the group will become the
- first displayed group in the list, by entering '8'
- the eighth group in the list etc. By entering '$'
- the group will be the last group displayed.
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- M User configurable options menu (for more
- information see section Options Menu).
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- q Quit tin.
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- Q Quit tin.
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- r Toggle display of all subscribed to groups and
- just the subscribed to groups containing unread
- articles. Command has no effect if groups were
- read from the command line when tin was started.
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- s Subscribe to current group.
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- S Subscribe to groups matching user specified
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- u Unsubscribe to current group.
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- U Unsubscribe to groups matching user specified
- pattern.
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- v Print tin version information.
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- w Post an article to current group.
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- W List articles posted by user. The date posted,
- the newsgroup and the subject are listed.
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- y The first time this command is called it will yank
- in all groups from $LIBDIR/active that are not in
- $HOME/.newsrc. After any groups have been
- subscribed/unsubscribed to, this command if
- pressed again will reread $HOME/.newsrc and
- display only the subscribed groups.
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- Y Reread the active file to see if any new news has
- arrived since starting tin.
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- z Mark all articles in the current group as unread.
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- Z Undelete previously deleted group by ^K command
- from $HOME/.newsrc.
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- / Group forward search.
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- ? Group backward search.
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- SPOOL DIRECTORY SELECTION COMMANDS
- 4 Select spool directory 4.
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- ^L Redraw page.
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- <CR> Read news from selected spool directory.
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- B Mail a bug report or comment to the author. This
- is the best way of getting bugs fixed and features
- added/changed.
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- h Help screen of spool directory selection commands.
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- H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom
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- I Toggle inverse video.
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- q Return to previous level.
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- Q Quit tin.
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- v Print tin version information.
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- GROUP INDEX COMMANDS
- 4 Select article 4.
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- ^K Kill current article (for more information read
- section Kill Article Menu).
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- ^L Redraw page.
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- <CR> Read current article.
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- <TAB> View next unread article or group.
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- a Author forward search.
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- A Author backward search.
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- c Mark all articles as read with confirmation.
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- C Mark all articles as read and goto next group with
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- d Toggle display to show just the subject or the
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- g Choose a new group by name.
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- h Help screen of group index commands.
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- H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom
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- I Toggle inverse video.
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- K Mark article/thread as read and advance to next
- unread article/thread.
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- l List the author of each response in current thread
- and enter thread selection level.
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- m Mail current article / thread / auto selected
- (hot) articles / articles matching pattern /
- tagged articles to someone.
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- M User configurable options menu (for more
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- n Go to next group.
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- N Go to next unread article.
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- o Output current article / thread / auto selected
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- tagged articles to printer.
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- p Go to previous group.
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- P Go to previous unread article.
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- q Return to previous level.
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- Q Quit tin.
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- s Save current article / thread / auto selected
- (hot) articles / articles matching pattern /
- tagged articles to file / files / mailbox. To
- save to a mailbox enter '=' or '=mailbox' when
- asked for filename to save to. To save in
- <newsgroup name>/<filename> format enter
- '+filename'. Environment variables are allowed
- within a filename (i.e. $SOURCES/dir/filename).
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- t Tag current article / thread for mailing ('m') /
- piping ('|') / printing ('o') / saving ('s') /
- crossposting ('x').
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- u Toggle display to show all articles as unthreaded
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- U Untag all articles that were tagged.
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- v Print tin version information.
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- w Post an article to current group.
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- W List articles posted by user. The date posted,
- the newsgroup and the subject are listed.
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- x Crosspost already posted current article / thread
- / auto selected (hot) articles / articles matching
- pattern / tagged articles to another newsgroup(s).
- Useful for reposting from global to local
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- X Mark all unread articles that have not been
- selected as read, redo screen to reflect changes
- and put index at the first thread to begin
- reading. Pressing 'X' again will toggle back to
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- z Mark current article as unread.
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- Z Mark current thread as unread.
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- / Search forward for specified subject.
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- ? Search backward for specified subject.
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- - Show last message.
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- | Pipe current article / thread / auto selected
- (hot) articles / articles matching pattern /
- tagged articles into command.
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- * Select current thread for later processing.
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- Toggle selection of current thread. If at least one unread art,
- but not all unread arts, in thread is selected,
- then all unread arts become selected.
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- @ Reverse all selections on all articles.
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- ~ Undo all selections on all articles. It clears the
- toggle effect of 'X' command. Thus after first
- doing a 'X', one can then do '~' to reset
- articles. Thus, one can iteratively whittle down
- uninteresting threads.
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- + Perform auto-selection on current group.
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- ; For each thread in current group, if it at least
- one unread art is selected, all unread arts become
- selected. This is useful for auto-selection on
- author where reader wants to see entire thread.
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- = Prompts for a pattern with which to match on. All
- threads whose subjects match the pattern will be
- selected. A pattern of "*" will match all
- subjects. Entering just <CR> will cause the
- previous pattern to be used.
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- THREAD LISTING COMMANDS
- 4 Select article 4 within thread.
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- ^L Redraw page.
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- c Mark thread as read after confirmation and return
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- d Toggle display to show just the subject or the
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- h Help screen of thread listing commands.
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- H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom
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- I Toggle inverse video.
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- K Mark thread as read and return to previous level.
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- q Return to previous level.
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- Q Quit tin.
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- r Toggle display to show all articles or only unread
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- B Mail a bug report or comment to the author. This
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- t Tag current article for mailing ('m') / piping
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- T Return to group index level.
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- v Print tin version information.
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- z Mark current article in thread as unread.
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- Z Mark all articles in thread as unread.
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- 0 Read the base article in this thread.
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- 4 Read response 4 in this thread.
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- ^K Kill current article (for more information read
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- <CR> Goto next base article.
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- a Author forward search.
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- c Mark all articles as read with confirmation and
- return to group selection level.
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- C Mark current group as all read and goto next
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- d Toggle rot-13 decoding for this article.
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- D Delete current article. It must have been posted
- by the same user. The cancel message can be seen
- in the newsgroup 'control'.
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- f Post a followup to the current article with a copy
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- F Post a followup to the current article.
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- h Help screen of article page commands.
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- H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom
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- I Toggle inverse video.
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- k Mark article as read and advance to next unread
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- K Mark thread as read and advance to next unread
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- m Mail current article / thread / auto selected
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- tagged articles to someone.
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- M User configurable options menu (for more
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- n Go to the next article.
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- N Go to the next unread article.
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- p Go to the previous article.
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- P Go to the previous unread article.
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- q Return to previous level.
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- Q Quit tin.
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- r Reply through mail to the author of the current
- article with a copy of the article included.
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- R Reply through mail to the author of the current
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- s Save current article / thread / auto selected
- (hot) articles / articles matching pattern /
- tagged articles to file / files / mailbox. To
- save to a mailbox enter '=' or '=mailbox' when
- asked for filename to save to. To save in
- <newsgroup name>/<filename> format enter
- '+filename'. Environment variables are allowed
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- t Return to group selection level.
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- T Tag current article for mailing ('m') / piping
- ('|') / printing ('o') / saving ('s') /
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- v Print tin version information.
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- w Post an article to current group.
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- W List articles posted by user. The date posted,
- the newsgroup and the subject are listed.
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- x Crosspost already posted current article / thread
- / auto selected (hot) articles / articles matching
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- Useful for reposting from global to local
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- | Pipe current article / thread / auto selected
- (hot) articles / articles matching pattern /
- tagged articles into command.
-
- < Goto the first article in the current thread.
-
- > Goto the last article in the current thread.
-
- * Select current thread for later processing.
-
- Toggle selection of current article.
-
- @ Reverse article selections.
-
- ~ Undo all selections on current thread.
-
- GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU
- This menu is accessed by pressing 'M' at all levels. It
- allows the user to customize the behaviour of tin. The
- options are saved to the file $HOME/.tin/tinrc. Use <SPACE>
- to toggle the required option and <CR> to set.
-
- Auto save
- Automatically save articles/threads by ``Archive-name:''
- line in article header and post process them if process
- type is not set to None.
-
- Editor offset
- Set ON if the editor used for posting, follow-ups and
- bug reports has the capability of starting and
- positioning the cursor at a specified line within a
- file.
-
- Mark saved read
- Allows saved articles/threads to be automatically marked
- as read.
-
- Confirm Command
- Allows certain commands (i.e. 'c' catchup) that require
- user confirmation to be executed immediately if set OFF.
-
- Draw arrow
- Allows groups/articles to be selected by an arrow '->'
- if set ON or by an highlighted bar if set OFF.
-
- Print header
- This allows the complete mail header or only the
- ``Subject:'' and ``From:'' fields to be output when
- printing articles.
-
- Goto 1st unread
- This allows the cursor to be placed at the first / last
-
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-
-
-
- unread article upon entering a newsgroup with unread
- news.
-
- Scroll full page
- If set ON scrolling of groups/articles will be a full
- page at a time, otherwise half a page at a time.
-
- Catchup on quit
- If set ON the user is asked when quitting if all groups
- read during the current session should be marked read.
-
- Thread articles
- If set ON articles will be threaded in all groups
- (default), otherwise articles will be shown unthreaded.
- Threading/unthreading is possible on a per group basis
- by setting the group attribute variable 'thread_arts' to
- ON/OFF in the file $HOME/.tin/attributes.
-
- Show only unread
- If set ON show only new/unread articles, otherwise show
- all articles.
-
- Show description
- If set ON show a short descriptive text for each
- displayed newsgroup. The text used is taken from the
- $LIBDIR/newsgroups file.
-
- Show Author
- If set 'None' only the ``Subject:'' line will be
- displayed. If set 'Addr' ``Subject:'' line & the
- address part of the ``From:'' line are displayed. If
- set 'Name' ``Subject:'' line & the authors full name
- part of the ``From:'' line are displayed. If set
- 'Both' ``Subject:'' line & all of the ``From:'' line are
- displayed.
-
- Process type
- This specifies the default type of post processing to
- perform on saved articles. The following types of
- processing are allowed:
- -none.
- -unpacking of multi-part shell archives.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.zoo archive whose contents is listed.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.zoo archive whose contents is
- extracted.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.zip archive whose contents is listed.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.zip archive whose contents is
-
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-
-
-
- extracted.
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.lha archive whose contents is listed
- (AmigaDOS version only).
- -unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files, which
- produce a *.lha archive whose contents is extracted
- (AmigaDOS version only).
-
- Sort articles by
- This specifies how articles should be sorted. The
- following sort types are allowed:
- -don't sort articles (default).
- -sort articles by ``Subject:'' field (ascending &
- descending).
- -sort articles by ``From:'' field (ascending &
- descending).
- -sort articles by ``Date:'' field (ascending &
- descending).
-
- Save directory
- The directory where articles/threads are to be saved.
- Default is $HOME/News.
-
- Mail directory
- The directory where articles/threads are to be saved in
- mailbox format. This feature is mainly for use with the
- Elm mail program. It allows the user to save
- articles/threads/groups simply by giving '=' as the
- filename to save to.
-
- Printer
- The printer program with options that is to be used to
- print articles. Default is lpr for BSD machines and lp
- for SysV machines.
-
- TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
- The following variables are user configurable by editing
- $HOME/.tin/tinrc directly. It is hoped to eventually provide
- a menu to allow the setting of the most common variables.
-
- batch_save
- If set ON articles/threads will be saved in batch mode
- when save -S or mail -M is specified on the command
- line. Default is OFF.
-
- beginner_level
- If set ON a mini menu of the most useful commands will
- be displayed at the bottom of the screen for each level.
- Default is ON.
-
- display_reading_prompt
- The prompt ``Reading...'' will be displayed when reading
-
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-
-
-
- an article from a NNTP server to provide feedback to the
- user. Default is ON.
-
- force_screen_redraw
- Specifies whether a screen redraw should always be done
- after certain external commands. Default is OFF.
-
- groupname_max_length
- Maximum length of the names of newsgroups to be
- displayed so that more of the newgroup description can
- be displayed. Default is 132.
-
- default_sigfile
- The path that specifies the signature file to use when
- posting, following upto or replying to an article. If
- the path is a directory then the signature will be
- randomly generated from files that are in the specified
- directory. Default is $HOME/.Sig.
-
- editor_format
- The format string used to create the editor start
- command with parameters. Default is '%E +%N %F' (i.e.,
- /bin/vi +7 .article).
-
- hot_art_mark
- The character used to show that an article/thread is
- auto-selected (hot). Default is '*'.
-
- quote_chars
- The character used in quoting included text to article
- followups and mail replys. The '_' character represents
- a blank character and is replaced with ' ' when read.
- Default is ':_'.
-
- reread_active_file_secs
- The news active file is reread at regular intervals to
- show if any new news has arrived. Default is 300
- seconds.
-
- return_art_mark
- The character used to show that an article will return.
- Default is '-'.
-
- save_to_mmdf_mailbox
- Allows articles to be saved to a MMDF style mailbox
- instead of mbox format. Default is OFF unless reading
- news on SCO Unix which uses MMDF by default.
-
- show_last_line_prev_page
- The last line of the previous page will be displayed as
- the first line of next page. Default is OFF.
-
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-
-
-
- slow_speed_terminal
- Strips the blanks from the end of each line therefore
- speeding up the display when reading on a slow terminal
- or via modem. Default is OFF.
-
- tab_after_X_selection
- If enabled will automatically goto the first unread
- article after having selected all hot articles and
- threads with the 'X' command at group index level.
- Default is OFF.
-
- tab_goto_next_unread
- If enabled pressing TAB at the article viewer level will
- goto the next unread article immediately instead of
- first paging through the current one. Default is ON.
-
- unread_art_mark
- The character used to show that an article has not been
- read. Default is '+'.
-
- use_builtin_inews
- Allows the builtin NNTP inews to be enabled/disabled.
- Default is ON (enabled).
-
- use_keypad
- Allows the scroll keys on the keypad to be
- enabled/disabled on supported terminals. Default is OFF.
-
- GROUP ATTRIBUTES
- Tin allows certain attributes to be set on a per group
- basis. These group attributes are read from the file
- $HOME/.tin/attributes. A later version will provide a menu
- interface to set all the attributes. At present you will
- have to edit the file with your editor :-(. The following
- group attributes are available:
-
- newsgroup=alt.sources
- maildir=/usr/iain/Mail/sources
- savedir=/usr/iain/News/alt.sources
- sigfile=/usr/iain/.funny_sig
- organization=Wacky Bits Inc.
- followup_to=alt.sources.d
- printer=/usr/local/bin/a2ps -nn | /bin/lpr
- auto_save=ON
- batch_save=OFF
- delete_tmp_files=ON
- show_only_unread=OFF
- thread_arts=ON
- show_author=1
- sort_art_type=5
- post_proc_type=1
-
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-
-
-
- Note that the ''newsgroup=<groupname>'' line has to be
- specified before the attributes are specified for that
- group.
-
- All attributes are set to a reasonable default so you only
- have to specify the attribute that you want to change (i.e.,
- savedir).
-
- All toggle attributes are set by specifying ON/OFF.
-
- The show_author attribute is specified by a number from the
- following range: 0=none, 1=username, 2=network address,
- 3=both.
-
- The sort_art_type attribute is specified by a number from
- the following range: 0=none, 1=subject descending, 2=subject
- ascending, 3=from descending, 4=from ascending, 5=date
- descending, 6=date ascending.
-
- The post_proc_type attribute is specified by a number from
- the following range: 0=none, 1=unshar, 2=uudecode,
- 3=uudecode & list zoo archive, 4=uudecode & extract zoo
- archive, 5=uudecode & list zip archive, 6=uudecode & extract
- zip archive. (note: if running on AmigaDOS the zoo options
- are replaced by there corresponding lha archiver options).
-
- AUTOMATIC KILL AND SELECTION
- When there is a subject or an author which you are either
- very interested in, or find completely uninteresting, you
- can easily instruct tin to auto-select or auto-kill articles
- with specific subjects or from specific authors. These
- instructions are stored in a kill file.
-
- This menu is accessed by pressing '^K' at the group and page
- levels. It allows the user to kill or select an article
- that matches the current ``Subject:'' line, ``From:'' line
- or a string entered by the user. The user entered string can
- be applied to the ``Subject:'' or ``From:'' lines of an
- article. The kill description can be limited to the current
- newsgroup or it can apply to all newsgroups. Once entered
- the user can abort the command and not save the kill
- description, edit the kill file or save the kill
- description.
-
- On starting tin the users killfile $HOME/.tin/kill is read
- and on entering a newsgroup any kill or select descriptions
- are applied.
-
- Articles that match a kill description are marked killed and
- are not displayed. Articles that match an auto-select
- description are marked with a ''*'' when displayed.
-
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- POSTING ARTICLES
- Tin allows posting of articles, follow-up to already posted
- articles and replying direct through mail to the author of
- an article.
-
- Use the 'w' command to post an article to a newsgroup.
- After entering the post subject the default editor (i.e. vi)
- or the editor specified by the $VISUAL environment variable
- will be started and the article can be entered. To
- crosspost articles simply add a comma and the name of the
- newsgroup(s) to the end of the ``Newsgroups:'' line at the
- beginning of the article. After saving and exiting the
- editor you are asked if you wish to a)bort posting the
- article, e)dit the article again or p)ost the article to the
- specified newsgroup(s).
-
- Use the 'W' command to display a history of the articles you
- have posted. The date the article was posted, which
- newsgroups the article was posted to and the articles
- subject line are displayed.
-
- Use the 'f' / 'F' command to post a follow-up article to an
- already posted article. The 'f' command will copy the text
- of the original article into the editor. The editing
- procedure is the same as when posting an article with the
- 'w' command.
-
- Use the 'r' / 'R' command to reply direct through mail to
- the author of an already posted article. The 'r' command
- will copy the text of the original article into the editor.
- The editing procedure is the same as when posting an article
- with the 'w' command. After saving and exiting the editor
- you are asked if you wish to a)bort sending the article,
- e)dit the article again or s)end the article to the author.
-
- CUSTOMIZING THE ARTICLE QUOTE STRING
- When posting a followup to an article or replying direct to
- the author of an article via email the text of the article
- can be quoted. The beginning of the quoted text can contain
- information about the quoted article (i.e., Name and the
- Message Id of the article). To allow for different
- situations certain information from the article can be used
- in the quoted string. The following variables are expanded
- if found in the tinrc variables 'mail_quote_format=' or
- 'news_quote_format=':
- %A Address (Email)
- %D Date
- %F Full address (%N (%A))
- %G Groupname
- %M Message Id
- %N Name of user
- i.e.,
-
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-
-
- mail_quote_format=On %D in %G you wrote:
- news_quote_format=In %M, %F wrote:
- would expand when used to:
- On 21 Jul 1992 09:45:51 -0400 in alt.sources you wrote:
- In <abcINN123@anl433.uucp>, Iain Lea (iain@erlm.siemens.de) wrote:
-
- MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES
- The command interface to mail ('m'), pipe ('|'), print
- ('o'), crosspost ('x') and save ('s') articles is the same
- for ease of use.
-
- The initial command will ask you to select which a)rticle,
- t)hread, h)ot (auto selected) r)egex pattern, t)agged
- articles you wish to mail, pipe etc.
-
- Tagged articles must have already been tagged with the 'T'
- command. All tagged articles can be untagged by the 'U'
- untag command.
-
- If regex pattern matching is selected you are asked to enter
- a regular expression (i.e. to match all articles subject
- lines containing 'net News' you must enter '*net News*').
- Any articles that match the entered expression will be
- mailed, piped etc.
-
- To save articles to a mailbox with the name of the current
- newsgroup (i.e. Alt.sources) enter '=' or '=<mailbox name>'
- when asked for the save filename.
-
- To save articles in <newsgroup name>/<filename> format enter
- '+<filename>'.
-
- When saving articles you can specify whether the saved files
- should be post processed (i.e. unshar shell archive,
- uudecode multiple parts etc). A default process type can be
- set by the 'Process type:' in the 'M' options menu.
-
- AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING NEW NEWS
- Tin allows new/unread news articles to be mailed (-M
- option)/saved (-S option) in batch mode for later reading.
- Useful when going on holiday and you don't want to return
- and find that expire has removed a whole load of unread
- articles. Best to run from crontab everyday while away,
- after which you will be mailed a report of which articles
- were mailed/saved from which newsgroups and the total number
- of articles mailed/saved. Articles are saved in a private
- news structure under your <savedir> directory (default is
- $HOME/News). Be careful of using this option if you read a
- lot of groups because you could overflow your filesystem.
- If you only want to save a few groups it would be best to
- backup your full $HOME/.newsrc and create a new one that
- only contains the newsgroups you want to mail/save. Saved
-
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-
-
- news can be read later by tin -R.
-
- tin -M iain -c -f newsrc.mail
- (mail any unread articles in newgroups
- specified in file newsrc.mail)
-
- tin -S -c -f newsrc.save
- (save any unread articles in newgroups
- specified in file newsrc.save)
-
- tin -R (read any articles saved by tin -S)
-
- SIGNATURES
- Tin will recognize a signature in either $HOME/.signature or
- $HOME/.Sig. If $HOME/.signature exists, then the signature
- will be pulled into the editor for mail commands. A
- signature in $HOME/.signature will not be pulled into the
- editor for posting commands since inews will append the
- signature itself.
-
- A signature in $HOME/.Sig will be pulled into the editor for
- both posting and mailing commands.
-
- The following is an example of a $HOME/.Sig file:
- NAMES Iain Lea iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de
- SNAIL Bruecken Strasse 12, 8500 Nuernberg 90, Germany
- PHONE +49-911-331963 (home) +49-911-3089-407 (work)
- Tin also has the capability to generate random signatures on
- a per newsgroup basis if so desired. The way to accomplish
- this is to specify the default signature or the group
- attribute sigfile as a directory. If for example the
- sigfile path is /usr/iain/.sigs and .sigs is a directory
- then tin will select a random signature from any file that
- is in the directory .sigs (note: one signature per numbered
- file). A random signature can also consist of a fixed part
- signature that can contain your name, address etc. followed
- by the random sig. The fixed part of the random sig is read
- from the file $HOME/.sigfixed.
-
- ENVIROMENT VARIABLES
- TINRC
- Define this variable if you want to specify command
- line options that tin should be started with to save
- typing them each time it is started. The contents of
- the environment variable are added to the front of the
- command line options before it is parsed therefore
- allowing an option specified on the command line to
- override the same option specified in the environment.
-
- TIN_HOMEDIR
- Define this variable if you do not want the .tin
- directory in $HOME/.tin. (i.e. if you want all tin's
-
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-
- private files in /tmp/.tin you would set TINDIR to
- /tmp.
-
- TIN_INDEXDIR
- Define this variable if you do not want the .index
- directory in $HOME/.tin/.index. (i.e. if you want all
- tin's index files in /tmp/.index you would set
- TIN_INDEXDIR to /tmp.
-
- TIN_LIBDIR
- Define this variable if you want to override the LIBDIR
- path that was compiled into the tin binary via the
- Makefile.
-
- TIN_SPOOLDIR
- Define this variable if you want to override the
- SPOOLDIR path that was compiled into the tin binary via
- the Makefile.
-
- TIN_NOVROOTDIR
- Define this variable if you want to override the
- NOVROOTDIR path that was compiled into the tin binary
- via the Makefile.
-
- TIN_ACTIVEFILE
- Define this variable if you want to override the
- LIBDIR/active path that was compiled into the tin
- binary via the Makefile.
-
- NNTPSERVER
- The default NNTP server to remotely read news from.
- This variable only needs to be set if the -r command
- line option is specified and the file /etc/nntpserver
- does not exist.
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- Set the article header field ``Distribution:'' to the
- contents of the variable instead of the system default.
-
- ORGANIZATION
- Set the article header field ``Organization:'' to the
- contents of the variable instead of the system default.
- This variable has precedence over the file
- $HOME/.tin/organization that may also contain an
- organization string. If reading news on an Apollo
- DomainOS machine the environment variable NEWSORG has
- to be used instead of ORGANIZATION.
-
- REPLYTO
- Set the article header field ``Reply-To:'' to the
- return address specified by the variable. This is
- useful if the machine is not registered in the UUCP
-
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-
-
- mail maps or if you wish to receive replies at a
- different machine. This variable has precedence over
- the file $HOME/.tin/replyto that may also contain a
- return address.
-
- ADD_ADDRESS
- This can contain an address to append to the return
- address when replying directly through mail to somebody
- whose mail address is not directly recognized by the
- local host. For example say the return address is
- user@bigvax, but bigvax is not recognized by your host,
- so therefore the mail will not reach user. But the
- host littevax is known to recognize your host and
- bigvax, so if ADD_ADDRESS is set (i.e. 'setenv
- ADD_ADDRESS @littevax' for csh or 'set ADD_ADDRESS
- @littevax' and 'export ADD_ADDRESS' for sh) the address
- user@bigvax@littlevax will be used and the mail will
- reach user@bigvax. This variable has precedence over
- the file $HOME/.tin/add_address that may also contain
- an address.
-
- BUG_ADDRESS
- If the 'B' command bug report mail address is not
- correct this variable should be set to the correct mail
- address. This variable has precedence over the file
- $HOME/.tin/bug_address that may also contain a mail
- address.
-
- MAILER
- This variable has precedence over the default mailer
- that is used in all mailing operations within tin (i.e.
- replying 'rR', and bug reports 'B').
-
- VISUAL
- This variable has precedence over the default editor
- (i.e. vi) that is used in all editing operations within
- tin (i.e. posting 'w', replying 'rR', follow-ups 'fF'
- and bug reports 'B').
-
- AUTOSUBSCRIBE
- tin interprets this variable similarly to rn. It
- contains a list of patterns, separated by commas and
- possibly prefixed with exclamation points. A new group
- is checked against the list of patterns; if it matches,
- tin subscribes the user to the group without further
- query. An exclamation point negates the meaning of a
- match on this pattern, and can be used to cancel
- certain matches. For example, setting
- AUTOSUBSCRIBE=comp.os.unix.*,talk.*,!talk.politics.*
- will automatically subscribe the user to all new groups
- in the comp.os.unix hierarchy, and all talk groups
- other than talk.politics groups (which will be queried
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- for as usual.)
-
- AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE
- tin interprets this variable similarly to rn. It is
- handled like the AUTOSUBSCRIBE variable, but groups
- matching the list are unsubscribed from without further
- query. For example, setting
- AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE=alt.flame.*,u*,!uk.* will
- automatically unsubscribe the user from all new
- alt.flame groups and all groups starting with u
- (university groups) other than UK groups (which will be
- queried for as usual.)
-
- TIPS AND TRICKS
- Tin can be pretty much be navigated by using the four cursor
- keys. The left arrow key goes up a level, the right arrow
- key goes down a level, the up arrow key goes up a line (page
- at article viewer level) and the down arrow key goes down a
- line (page at article viewer level).
-
- The following newsgroups provide useful information
- concerning news software:
- -news.software.readers (info. about news user agents
- tin,rn,nn,vn etc.)
- -news.software.nntp (info. about NNTP)
- -news.software.b (info. about news transport agents
- Bnews,Cnews and INN)
- -news.answers (Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about
- many different themes)
-
- Many prompts (i.e. 'Mark everything as read? (y/n): y')
- within tin offer a default choice that the cursor is
- positioned on. By pressing <CR> the default value is taken.
-
- Many prompts (i.e. 'Post subject []>') within tin can be
- aborted by pressing ESC.
-
- When tin is run in an xterm window it will resize itself
- each time the xterm is resized.
-
- Tin will reread the active file at set intervals to show any
- newly arrived news.
-
- XTERM BUTTONS
- If the environment variable TERM is set to xterm, then
- button pressing can be used to select groups and articles.
-
- In the group selection menu, if the mouse is pointing before
- the groups listing region the previous page is selected
- (just like b). If the mouse is pointing after the groups
- listing region the next page is selected (just like space).
- If the mouse is pointing at a group then:
-
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- left button moves to the group pointed at.
-
- other buttons moves to and selects the group pointed at.
- Just like <CR>.
-
- In the article menu, if the mouse is pointing before the
- article listing region the previous page is selected (just
- like b). If the mouse is pointing after the article listing
- region the next page is selected (just like space). If the
- mouse is pointing at an article then:
-
- left button moves to the article pointed at.
-
- centre button reads next unread article from that pointed
- at. Just like <TAB>.
-
- right button reads article pointed at. Just like <CR>.
-
- In the thread menu, if the mouse is pointing before the
- article listing region the previous page is selected (just
- like b). If the mouse is pointing after the article listing
- region the next page is selected (just like space). If the
- mouse is pointing at an article then:
-
- left button moves to the article pointed at.
-
- centre button reads next unread article from that pointed
- at. Just like <TAB>.
-
- right button reads article pointed at. Just like <CR>.
-
- In the spool selection menu, if the mouse is pointing before
- the spool listing region the previous page is selected (just
- like b). If the mouse is pointing after the spool listing
- region the next page is selected (just like space). If the
- mouse is pointing at a spool selection then:
-
- left button moves to the spool pointed at.
-
- other buttons moves to and selects the spool pointed at.
- Just like <CR>.
-
- In other menus and areas button pressing reverts back to
- usual cut and paste of xterm, but after one click of any
- button.
-
- FILES
- $HOME/.newsrc subscribed to newgroups.
-
- $HOME/.newsauth ``nntpserver password'' pairs for NNTP
- servers that require authorization.
-
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- TIN(1) LOCAL TIN(1)
-
-
-
- $HOME/.tin/tinrc options.
-
- $HOME/.tin/attributes
- contains user specified group
- attributes.
-
- $HOME/.tin/.index newsgroups index files directory.
-
- $HOME/.tin/.mailidx mailgroups index files directory.
-
- $HOME/.tin/.saveidx saved newsgroups index files directory.
-
- $HOME/.tin/active.mail
- active file of users mailgroups.
-
- $HOME/.tin/active.save
- active file of users saved newsgroups.
-
- $HOME/.tin/add_address
- address to add to when replying through
- mail.
-
- $HOME/.tin/bug_address
- address to send bug reports to.
-
- $HOME/.tin/kill article kill and auto-selection file.
-
- $HOME/.tin/organization
- string to replace default organization.
-
- $HOME/.tin/posted history of articles posted by user.
-
- $HOME/.tin/replyto host address to use in ``Reply-To:''
- mail header.
-
- $HOME/.signature signature.
-
- $HOME/.Sig signature.
-
- $HOME/.sigfixed fixed part of a randomly generated
- signature.
-
- /usr/lib/news/motd News message of the day file.
-
- /usr/lib/news/newsgroups
- Short description of all newsgroups.
-
- /usr/lib/news/subscriptions
- List of newsgroups to subscribe first
- time user to.
-
-
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-
-
-
- BUGS
- There are bugs somewhere among the creeping featurism. Any
- bugs found should be reported by the 'B' (bug report)
- command.
-
- Coredumps when setting certain toggle options from the
- options menu at article viewer level.
-
- Coredumps when killing last article in a thread at article
- viewer level.
-
- HISTORY
- Based on the tass newsreader that was developed by Rich
- Skrenta and posted to alt.sources in March 1991. Tass was
- itself heavily influenced by NOTES which was developed at
- the University of Illinois by Ray Essick and Rob Kolstad in
- 1982.
-
- v1.0 PL0 (full) was posted in 8 parts to alt.sources on 23
- Aug 1991.
- v1.0 PL1 (full) was posted in 8 parts to alt.sources on 03
- Sep 1991.
- v1.0 PL2 (full) was posted in 9 parts to alt.sources on 24
- Sep 1991.
- v1.0 PL3 (patch) was posted in 4 parts to alt.sources on 30
- Sep 1991.
- v1.0 PL4 (patch) was posted in 2 parts to alt.sources on 02
- Oct 1991.
- v1.0 PL5 (patch) was posted in 4 parts to alt.sources on 17
- Oct 1991.
- v1.0 PL6 (patch) was posted in 5 parts to alt.sources on 27
- Nov 1991.
- v1.0 PL7 (patch) was posted in 2 parts to alt.sources on 27
- Nov 1991.
- v1.1 PL0 (full) was posted in 11 parts to alt.sources on 13
- Feb 1992.
- v1.1 PL1 (full) was posted in 12 parts to alt.sources on 24
- Mar 1992.
- v1.1 PL2 (patch) was posted in 4 parts to alt.sources on 30
- Mar 1992.
- v1.1 PL3 (full) was posted in 15 parts to alt.sources on 13
- May 1992.
- v1.1 PL4 (full) was posted in 15 parts to alt.sources on 22
- Jun 1992.
- v1.1 PL5 (patch) was posted in 7 parts to alt.sources on 11
- Aug 1992.
- v1.1 PL6 (full) was posted in 15 parts to alt.sources on 14
- Sep 1992.
- v1.1 PL7 (patch) was posted in 10 parts to alt.sources on 15
- Nov 1992.
- v1.1 PL8 (patch) was posted in 6 parts to alt.sources on 06
- Dec 1992.
-
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-
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-
-
-
- v1.1 PL9 (patch) was posted in 3 parts to alt.sources on 20
- Mar 1993.
- v1.2 PL0 (full) was posted in 14 parts to alt.sources on 25
- May 1993.
- v1.2 PL1 (patch) was posted in 8 parts to alt.sources on 14
- Jul 1993.
- v1.2 PL2 (patch) was posted in ?? parts to alt.sources on ??
- Sep 1993.
-
- CREDITS
- Rich Skrenta author of tass v3.2 which this newsreader
- used as its base.
-
- Bill Davidsen author of envarg.c environment variable
- reading routine.
-
- Mike Gleason author of sigfile.c random signature
- generation routines. Arnold Robbins author
- of strftime.c date formatting routine.
-
- Jim Robinson co-author of kill.c article kill and auto-
- selection routines.
-
- Rich Salz author of wildmat.c pattern matching and
- parsedate.y date parsing routines.
-
- Dave Taylor author of curses.c from the elm mailreader.
-
- Chris Thewalt author of getline.c emacs style editing
- routine.
-
- Mark Tomlinson for porting tin to the AmigaDOS operating
- system.
-
- Andreas Wrede for porting tin to the OS/2 operating system.
-
- Dieter Becker for generously posting certain releases for
- me when my net connection was removed by a
- group of very short sighted people.
-
- I wish to thank the following people for supplying patches:
-
- David Abbott, Earle Ake, Joachim Astel, Anton Aylward,
- George Baltz, Paul Bauwens, Dieter Becker, Dan Berry, David
- Binderman, Fokke de Boer, Mark Boucher, Herman ten Brugge,
- Leila Burrell-Davis, Peter Castro, Robert Claeson, Steven
- Cogswell, Don Costello, Bryan Curnutt, Ned Danieley, Chris
- Davies, John Davis, Tom Dickey, Bryan Dongray, Craig
- Durland, Kirk Edson, Stefan Elf, Rob Engle, Brent Ermlick,
- Olle Eriksson, Michael Faurot, Werner Fleck, Callum Gibson,
- Mike Glendinning, Philippe Goujard, Carl Hage, Paul Halsema,
- Ed Hanway, Scott Hauck, Per Headland, Daniel Hermans, Jose
-
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-
-
-
- Herrero, Tom Hite, Torsten Homeyer, Tommy Hsieh, Steve Hunt,
- Pieter Immelman, Robbin Johnson, Nelson Kading, Fritz
- Kleeman, Dwarven Knight, Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, Martin
- Kraemer, Kris Kugel, Geoff Lane, Alex Lange, Alain Lasserre,
- Marty Leisner, Hakan Lennestal, Otto Lind, Richard Lloyd,
- Clifford Luke, David MacKenzie, Hugh Mahon, Kazushi
- Marukawa, Owen Medd, Soren Moller, Sergio Morales, Michael
- Morrell, Klaus Mueller, Udo Munk, James Nugen, Jeb Palmer,
- Neil Parker, Tom Parry, Jim Patterson, Walter Pelissero,
- Colin Perkins, Eric Peterson, Tim Pierce, Bill Poitras,
- Wolfgang Prediger, Ted Richards, Ollivier Robert, Jim
- Robinson, Stephen Roseman, Clifton Royston, Nickolay Saukh,
- Rich Salz, Gary Sanders, John Sauter, Christopher Sawtell,
- John Schmitz, Bart Sears, Karl-Olav Serrander, Doug Sewell,
- Philip Shearer, Mark Smith, Steve Spearman, Cliff Stanford,
- Steve Starck, Jason Steiner, Ed Sznyter, Derek Terveer,
- Julian Thompson, Andry Timonin, Mark Tomlin, Michael Traub,
- Adri Verhoef, Paul Vickers, Cary Whitney, Greg Woods, Lloyd
- Wright
-
- I wish to thank the following people for bug
- reports/comments:
-
- Jack Applin, Klaus Arzig, Scott Babb, Reiner Balling,
- Preston Bannister, Bill de Beabien, Volker Beyer, Etienne
- Bido, Roger Binns, Georg Biehler, Jean-Marc Bonnaudet, Eric
- Bowles, Sean Brady, Ian Brown, Andreas Brosig, Craig Bruce,
- Brett Carver,Tom Czarnik, Dave Datta, Mat Davis, Karl
- Denninger, Klaus Dimmler, David Donovan, Peter Dressler,
- Gerhard Ermer, Hugh Fader, Miguel Farah, Joachim Feld, Paul
- Fox, Jay Geertsen, Herschel Gelman, Bernhard Gmelch, Jason
- Haar, Viet Hoang, Andy Jackson, Joe Johnson, Ralph Jud,
- Cyrill Jung, Kuo-Chein Kai, Tonis Kelder, Hans-Juergen
- Knopp, Sridhar Komandur, Tom Kovar, Bernhard Kroenung,
- Murray Laing, Per Lindqvist, Eric Litman, Bob Lukas, Michael
- Marshall, Kazushi Marukawa, Olaf Mittelstaedt, Phillip
- Molloy, Phil Molyneux, Toni Metz, Greg Miller, Deeptendu
- Majumder, Klaus Neuberger, Otto Niesser, Reiner Oelhaf, Alex
- Pakter, John Palkovic, Dave Pascoe, Wolf Paul, Andrew
- Phillips, Stefan Rathmann, Jon Robinson, David Ross, Jonas
- Rwgmyr, Malkani Sanjay, Daemon Schaefer, Dean Schrimpf,
- Klamer Schutte, Fredy Schwatz, Dave Schweisguth, Bernd
- Schwerin, Don Sheythe, Chris Smith, Daniel Smith, Richard
- Stanton, Ralf Stephan, Hironobu Takahashi, Ken Taylor, Tony
- Travis, Paul Verket, Sven Werner, Dick Wexelblat, Paul Wood,
- Gregory Woodbury, Norm Yamane, Blair Zajac, Orest Zboroski,
- Thomas Ziegler
-
- AUTHOR
- Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
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