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News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3
Written by W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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Overview
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News Xpress(NX) is a Windows Sockets compliant USENET newsreader for
Microsoft Windows that uses the NNTP to access newsgroups and articles on
a news server.
Some of the key features of NX are:
- An integrated MDI application
- Support XOVER to access overview database from news server
- Support AUTHINFO for authorization
- Support threads
- Support signature
- Built-in uuencode and uudecode
- Support kill and auto-selection, accept regular expressions for specifying
patterns
- Local folders for storing articles, and outbox for queueing posts and mails
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Installation
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1. The distribution is a compressed ZIP file. Create a directory for NX,
cd into it, and unzip the ZIP file in that directory. For example:
C:\> MKDIR NX
C:\> CD NX
C:\NX> PKUNZIP C:\DOWNLOAD\NX10B?.ZIP
If you don't have CTL3DV2.DLL in the Windows SYSTEM directory,
C:\NX> MOVE CTL3DV2.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
otherwise,
C:\NX> DEL CTL3DV2.DLL
2. Create an icon for NX in the Program Manager.
3. If you want NX to use the INI file in the directory other than
Windows, you can either specify it in the NX environment variable
or command line parameter.
NX environment variable example:
C:\NX> SET NX=C:\NX\MYNX.INI
Command line parameter example:
C:\NX\NX.EXE C:\NX\MYNX.INI
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History
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Several bugfixes and changes from V1.0 Beta #0
Fixed:
- Catchup problem
- Save windows position and size correctly
- UUdecode multipart files
- Crash if SPACEBAR is pressed while there is no article in the
list window
Changes:
- Perform authorization check right after connection is established
- The "File|Quit without saving" command forces NX to cancel
socket call and terminate NX
- Add filter for selecting newsgroups
- Single click on a folder icon of thread will open/close thread
- Added an option for prompting new newsgroups
- Added an option for opening all threads automatically
- Configurable Subject header template for attachment
%s - original subject string
%f - filename
%p - current part number
%t - total number of parts
- Extended tilde escape sequence for more files attachment control
~N new article
~H add or replace header
~A attach file
Several bugfixes and changes from V1.0 Beta #1
Fixed:
- Should work with Novell LAN Workplace
- Append signature into outgoing mails
- NEWSRC problem
- Groups filter problem
- "No overview database" problem should be fixed
- Authentication password encryption problem
Changes:
- Configurable port numbers for both NNTP and SMTP
- Display the number of articles of each thread
- Support different printer font
- More keys binding
- Articles navigation (next and previous)
- Added stop command. The stop command serves for multiple purpose,
e.g. terminate headers information transfer, cancel print job, and
stop downloading multiple articles.
- Added update command to update the selected groups information
(unread count)
- Can be specified to use different pathname for NEWSRC file in the setup
dialog box
- NX environment variable tells NX where to look for the INI file,
e.g. SET NX=C:\NX\MYNX.INI
Several bugfixes and changes from V1.0 Beta #2
Fixed:
- Very long groupname problem
- Handles long ( > 512 bytes) incoming lines improperly
- Printer devices problem
- Catchup does not work after invoking "More" command
- Hang while displaying Base64 encoded articles
- Hang while reading groupname in NEWSRC if the groupname contains
non-ASCII characters
Major changes:
- No longer sort the newgroups automatically
- File|Save command can be used to update NEWSRC by activating the
newsgroups window
- Articles|More -> Group|Check New Articles
- Reload old articles
- Word wrap
- Carbon copy and blind carbon copy for mail
- Automatic update subscribed newsgroup for a given time interval
- Kill and auto-select articles
- Implementation of local folder (mailbox format), and outbox
- Indent threads
- UUencode/UUdecode is done "on-line" to increase the performance
- Accept command line parameter for the pathname of the INI file
- Tilde escape sequences obsoleted
- Mail/Post log obsoleted
Known problems:
- List control displays string improperly in Windows NT
- Edit control limitation ( < 64K bytes )
I hope you find NX useful.
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Copyright
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Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its documentation
for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that it is not
modified.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Reporting Bugs
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Mail your bug reports to Ken Ng <kenng@hk.super.net>. Please include the
steps to reproduce the bugs, and any other information that might help
me locate and correct the cause.
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W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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