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- This is the NetNews/CD Support Software disk.
- It contains the following:
-
- Ñ TheNews news reader, written by Bill Cramer:
- Read the information in this folder and use this
- news reader to access the data on the NetNews/CD.
-
- Ñ Sample Think C code to access the NetNews/CD:
- This folder contains information ONLY OF INTEREST TO
- PROGRAMMERS. If you are NOT interested in developing
- a news reader that is NetNews/CD compatible you DO
- NOT need to be concerned with that folder.
-
- QUICK START INFORMATION:
-
- Ñ Drag the 'TheNews' folder to a
- convenient place on your hard disk.
-
- Ñ Print this READ ME file for reference.
-
- Ñ Insert the NetNews/CD in your CD drive.
-
- Ñ Double-Click 'TheNews-CD 2.2' (in the folder
- that you created on your hard disk).
-
- Ñ Under FILE, PREFERENCES, select the NetNews/CD
- volume (news path). Do this by clicking on
- the SET to the right of the 'News Path'
- text box. Click on DRIVE until the CD title appears.
- It will be 'NETNEWS_CD_<Start Date>_<End Date>_<Year>'.
- Then click on the white space below the names.
- Finally, click on SELECT. This process will have
- to be completed each time you insert a different CD.
-
- Ñ Click SAVE.
-
- Ñ Under FILE, select NEW.
-
- Ñ Under GROUPS, select EDIT GROUP LIST.
-
- Ñ Select the groups you are interested in. This can be
- done by double-clicking each group you want to
- select.
-
- Ñ Select DONE
-
- Ñ Double-Click on a group (Suggestion: To save time,
- select a group with less than 100 articles).
-
- Ñ Double-Click on an article
-
- Ñ Now, let's read a few articles. Use Cmd-F for forward
- and Cmd-B for backward selection of articles.
-
- Ñ Under FILE, SAVE AS..., save this group list for future use.
-
- Ñ Select quit when finished. Read the 'TheNews User's Manual - V2'
- documentation when you get a chance.
-
- 'TheNews' is a shareware news reader that has been updated and modified
- to allow access to the NetNews/CD articles. It was written by Bill Cramer.
- Please support him in the spirit of shareware and encourage him to
- continue development on this news reader.
-
- Additional news readers will become available in the future. We would
- like to encourage and help any efforts to write or update news readers
- capable of accessing NetNews/CD articles (i.e. local storage rather
- than NNTP servers).
-
- Please direct any questions or comments to:
-
- CD Publishing Corp.
- 4824 Fraser Street
- Vancouver, B.C.
- Canada V5V 4H4
-
- 1-800-333-7565 (US)
- 1-604-874-1430 (TEL)
- 1-604-874-1431 (FAX)
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