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- From: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: tin v1.00 - YAN (Yet Another Newsreader) Part 00/08
- Message-ID: <581@norisc.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Aug 91 13:49:27 GMT
- Sender: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea)
- Organization: What organization?
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- Submitted-by: iain@estevax.uucp
- Archive-name: tin/part00
-
- Tin is a full screen threaded newsreader that uses the tass newsreader as
- its base. Tass was developed by Rich Skrenta (skrenta@blekko.commodore.com).
- Tin can read news locally and also via an NNTP server (-r option). Tin
- contains more features than tass but they are still accessable to the
- beginner and expert alike. I tried to follow the tass UI conventions as
- much as possible.
-
- This is a late beta release (I hope!). I am looking for people to test this
- and send me ideas/comments & bugs so that I can correct any and then send
- it off to comp.sources.misc sometime in the near future.
-
- This is the only newsreader that I know of that threads on the Archive-name:
- field as used in comp.sources.* groups as well as on the more normal Subject:
- field. Before anyone comments on Subject: threading not being right and I
- should look at trn, I have and its threads are neat but I get more done with
- tin than trn. It is especially good at saving and processing saved articles
- & threads.
-
- Bugs and new features to be added are described in the file TODO
-
- Built & used on the following machines
- --------------------------------------
- 1) Vax 8850 & Ultrix 4.1 (Developed & most tested platform)
- 2) Vax 11/785 & BSD 4.3
- 3) 386 PC & Xenix 386
- 4) 386 PC & ATT Unix SysVR4.0 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
- 5) 386 PC & SCO Unix SysVR3.2 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
- 6) 386 PC & ISC Unix SysVR3.2 with WINTCP (shakey ??)
-
- I may be off the net for a couple of months at the end of September, but
- will be contactable at the following address:
-
- Iain J. Lea
- BrueckenStr. 12
- 8500 Nuernberg 90
- Germany.
- Phone. +49-911-331963
- Email. iain@estevax.uucp
-
- Credits
- -------
- I wish to give credit to the following people for the routines
- that they have written and I have used in tin:
-
- Rich Skrenta - tass v3.2 that tin is based upon.
- Syd Weinstein - curses.c is taken from the elm mailreader
- Rich Salz - wildmat regex pattern matching routine
- Wayne Brandt - multi-part uudecode routine
-
- I wish to thank the following people for comments & ideas:
-
- Klaus Arzig, Reiner Balling, Georg Biehler, Peter Dressler,
- Gerhard Ermer, Joachim Feld, Bernhard Gmelch, Joe Johnson,
- Cyrill Jung, Clifford Luke, Toni Metz, Klaus Neuberger,
- Otto Niesser, Fredy Schwatz, Bernd Schwerin, Chris Smith
-
- --
- NAME Iain Lea
- EMAIL norisc!iain@estevax.UUCP ...!unido!estevax!norisc!iain
- SNAIL Siemens AG, AUT 922C, Postfach 4848, Nuernberg, Germany
- PHONE +49-911-895-3853, +49-911-895-3877, +49-911-331963
-