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- DNEWS
-
- NOTE: libs:arp.library must be present for the 'w' (write to file)
- command to work. An arp.library is included in the distribution
- but if you already have arp installed you can ignore it.
-
- DNews is the new news reading program, written by yours truely (Matt
- Dillon). DNews does not modify or delete any news files, but instead
- keeps track of read articles via a <user>.DNewsRC file... A different
- file for each user.
-
- The format of the .DNewsRC file is as follows:
-
- <enabled> <newsgroup> <read-articles> <marked-articles> <killed-articles>
-
- Only the <read-articles> field is currently implemented, other fields
- are left as a single '-'. The field consists of one or more comma
- delimited sub fields with optional numeric ranges, in sorted order:
-
- y comp.sys.amiga.tech 0-17,22,24-30 - -
-
- Indicates that articles 1-17, 22, and 24-30 have been read. The DNews
- program parses and rewrites the .DNewsRC file according to what you
- did while in the program. DNEWS MAINTAINS THIS FILE FOR YOU. THE
- USER NORMALLY NEVER EVEN READS THE FILE.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- GETTING STARTED
-
- If a <user>.dnewsrc file does not exist in your UULIB:, DNews will create
- one automatically by scanning UUNEWS: for appropriate newsgroups. If you
- later decide to add or drop a newsgroup you must edit the <user>.dnewsrc
- file.
-
- On startup, DNews comes up with a small window listings available
- newsgroups and the number of unread messages in each. You may click
- on a given newsgroup at any time to begin reading that group. DNews
- will bring up a second window containing the current article being read.
-
- NOTE: Any window may be moved or resized at any time. DNews will remember
- the size and placement of all windows and bring them up in the same
- configuration the next time you use DNews.
-
- In the article window keys are defined to move around and do various
- operations on the article (such as paging up and down, right and left,
- moving on to the next article, killing it, following its references,
- etc...). See The command list at the bottom of the manual page for more
- information.
-
- The 'h' command brings up a help window listing the various commands.
- The most used commands are:
-
- <space> -page down
- n -next
- m -follow references stopping at the end
- M -follow references going back to the first unread article at the
- end
- f -followup to the newsgroup
- r -reply to the poster
- p -post new news
-
-
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- MAJOR FEATURES
-
- Below lists the major features of DNews. These commands are also indicated
- in the command table at the bottom of this file.
-
- (1) [k/K]illing a train of articles
-
- DNews allows you to kill future articles that reference the current
- article. The [k]ill command does so for the current session, while
- the [K]ill command does so for 30 days.
-
- The kill command uses the References: field to determine which
- articles to kill. Any article whos References: field contains the
- Message-ID of the article you killed or the Message-ID of any
- article in the killed article's References: line will be skipped
- automatically (note that explicitly following a reference list with
- the 'm' command does not skip killed articles)
-
- Long-term killed article Message-ID's are stored in the file
- <user>.dnewskl in your UULIB:
-
- (2) [m/M]essage following a train of articles
-
- DNews allows you to follow a particular train of articles related
- to each other. The [m]essage command searches for an article whos
- References: field contains the Message-ID of the current article or
- a Message-ID matching a Message-ID in the References: line of the
- current article. [m]essage will find ALL references.
-
- NOTE: DNews will scan the remaining articles for their Message-ID:
- and References: lines. These lines are cached within DNews
- for efficiency so only the first [m]essage command will be
- slow.
-
- [M]essage is the same as [m]essage except that [m]essage stops when
- it can no longer find any references while [M]essage rewinds to the
- first UNREAD article (i.e. you continue on to the next topic)
-
- (3) References: support
-
- DNews automatically adds a References: header to any followups you
- make, supporting the referencing system.
-
- (4) MULTI-USER SUPPORT
-
- By setting the USERNAME and REALNAME environment variables multiple
- users on your amiga may independantly read and post news. Each has
- his own .dnewsrc and .dnewskl file.
-
- COMMAND LIST
-
- h -help
-
- v -go to first unread article. That is, continue on with the next
- topic after reaching the end of a [m]essage sequence. Note that
- [M]essage is equivalent to [v] when there are no more references.
-
- m -mark article as read and follow references, stopping when no more
- references to the article are found. Normally you hit this key
- repeatedly to follow articles with a common subject.
-
- The [m]essage command has the ability to pick up a train of
- articles in the middle of a sequence.
-
- NOTE: the 'm' command currently skips articles marked as read.
- Thus, after sequencing through with 'm' trying to do so again
- will not work (because you have read all the articles!). This
- is a bug.
-
- M -[m], but instead of stopping at the end of the train it does the
- equivalent of a [v] command.
-
- g -goto a specific article and mark as unread
-
- n -mark article as read and go to the next article number
-
- s -do not mark article as read, go to the next article number
-
- b -go to previous article and unmark (mark as unread)
-
- k -kill refs to article for this session
-
- K -kill refs to article for 30 days
-
- U -unkill refs to article (removes Message-IDs from kill list)
-
- w -write article to file
-
- r -reply to sender of article
-
- R -reply to sender of article including original article contents
- NOTE: YOU SHOULD TRIM THE INCLUDED TEXT DOWN TO SIZE JUST SO
- THE SENDER GETS THE JIST OF IT. HE KNOWS WHAT HE SENT.
-
- f -followup article to newsgroup (your article references the
- current article)
-
- F -followup article to newsgroup including the original article's
- contents.
-
- NOTE: YOU *MUST* TRIM THE INCLUDED TEXT DOWN TO SIZE JUST SO
- PEOPLE GET THE JIST OF WHAT YOU ARE COMMENTING ON. NET USERS
- HAVE ACCESS TO THE FULL CONTENTS OF THE ARTICLE YOU ARE
- REFERENCING AND DO NOT NEED IT TOLD TO THEM OVER AND OVER.
-
- p -Post a new article. You may modify the NewsGroups: line however
- you like, it need not be restricted to the current news group.
-
-
- DISPLAY CURSOR CONTROLS:
-
- 8 9 * page-up top
- 4 o 6 left-half * right-half
- 2 3 * page-down bottom
-
- <space> also pages down for ease of use.
-
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