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- Path: wupost!uunet!mcsun!unido!estevax!norisc!iain
- From: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: tin v1.0 Patchlevel 1 Newsreader
- Message-ID: <598@norisc.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 91 10:54:45 GMT
- Sender: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea)
- Organization: What organization?
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- Submitted-by: iain@estevax.uucp
- Archive-name: tin1.01/part00
-
- This is an updated repost of the tin visual threaded NNTP newsreader v1.00.
- The new version is v1.0 PL1 (pathlevel 1). I am reposting instead of posting
- a patch file because the size difference was so small and I have recieved mail
- that a few sites did not get all the original parts.
-
- In the orignal posting I said it was a late beta release which shows how
- little I knew about how good the net is at finding bugs and giving suggestions.
- I hope this version is a late beta release (Optimistic ?).
-
- I am still 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 at the end of
- Sep/Oct 91.
-
- From this release onwards I will issue patches for use by the patch program.
-
- For bugs, fixes, changes & additions read the CHANGES & TODO files.
-
- And now for a bit of blurb from the original version...
-
- 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 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.
-
- o Organizes articles by threads. Displays a really nice article selection
- page.
-
- o Group selection page makes it easy to scan newsgroups, subscribe,
- unsubscribe, reorder your .newsrc.
-
- o If you've ever used tass/notes, this is the program for you.
- Tin looks a lot like tass, but has many improvements.
-
- Newsreading style under tin tends to be different than with rn. Instead of
- plowing through each group reading everything unread, you may find yourself
- reading fewer articles in more groups. It's easier to skip about and only
- read interesting threads with tin.
-
- Tin keeps an index file for each group. The first time you enter a group,
- it will be a bit slow creating this file. After that it will incrementally
- update the index file and there should be little delay.
-
- You can run tin in "update mode" out of cron to update the indexes.
-
- 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 (home)
- Phone. +49-911-895-3853 (work until Sep 30)
- Phone. +49-911-3089-407 (work from Oct 1)
- Email. iain@estevax.uucp
-
- 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 SysVR4.0 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
- 5) 386 PC & SCO SysVR3.2 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
- 6) 386 PC & ISC SysVR3.2 with WINTCP (shakey ??)
- 7) ICL DRS6000 (sparc) & SysVR4.0
- 7) Sparcstation & SunOS 4.1
-
- Building Tin
- ------------
- 1) type make and a few system types will be displayed
- 2) edit Makefile if you want to add/change -D DEFINES
- 3) type 'make <system type>' for your system
- 4) NOTE. the mmakefile needs rewriting (Any takers?)
-
- Note: the supplied Makefile will not run directly on BSD. It
- requires a little work (Any takers to write a good Makefile?)
-
- Installing Tin
- --------------
- 1) make install
-
- 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
- Chris Smith - multi-part uudecode routine
-
- I wish to thank the following people for comments & bug reports:
-
- Klaus Arzig, Reiner Balling, Volker Beyer, Roger Binns, Georg Biehler,
- Andreas Brosig, Peter Dressler, Gerhard Ermer, Joachim Feld,
- Bernhard Gmelch, Viet Hoang, Joe Johnson, Cyrill Jung,
- Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, Bob Lukas, Clifford Luke, Toni Metz,
- Klaus Neuberger, Otto Niesser, Wolf Paul, Rich Salz, Fredy Schwatz,
- Bernd Schwerin, Karl-Olav Serrander, Chris Smith, Adri Verhoef
-
- --
- 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
-