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- RADICALNEWS BETA RELEASE 0.8.7
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- Radical System Solutions, Inc.
- mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
- http://www.radical.com/
- July 1, 1996
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- NOTE: This version supersedes all previous versions
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- RADICALNEWS DESCRIPTION
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- - RadicalNews is a commercial NEXTSTEP GUI-based USENET newsreader.
- - RadicalNews beta 0.8.7 is a FREE beta pre-release.
- - RadicalNews beta 0.8.7 expires September 1, 1996.
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- RADICALNEWS REQUIREMENTS
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- - NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher supported, 3.0/3.1 work but unsupported
- - NEXTSTEP-J required for JIS/EUC character display
- - NNTP compliant news server or standard news (flat) files
- - Motorola, Intel, HP, or Sparc hardware
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- RADICALNEWS NEW FEATURES IN 0.8.7
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- * New! RadicalNews-J 0.8.7 comes with full Japanese support
- - Native Japanese text strings in all nibs and menus
- - Japanese.lproj as well as English.lproj files included
- - All menus, panels, windows, fields and nibs support Japanese input
- - Find panel now functions correctly with Japanese input
- - Emacs / Clare keystroke conflicts have been eliminated
- - "mojibake" or untranslated articles now correctly displayed
- - Japanese-encoded postings now restricted to New-JIS format
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- RADICALNEWS BUG FIXES IN 0.8.7
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- * Purged articles no longer crash app
- * uudecode algorithm substantially improved
- - No longer skips over certain types of articles
- - Can decode multiple posts with exact same title
- * Empty directory no longer generated during archiving
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- RADICALNEWS KNOWN PROBLEMS IN 0.8.7
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- * Color text quoting in J version not fully functional
- * Full "kinsoku-shori" character set not yet supported
- * Group showall can cuase a crash or trash app
- * Thread unread can cause a crash in flat file mode
- * Browser does not scroll columns properly
- * Areas with non-white backgrounds do not highlight properly when selected
- * Problems when NOV enabled and XOVER command not supported by news server
- * Selecting Flat Files as a news source requires a restart
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- RADICALNEWS FUTURE FEATURES
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- * Service support for news article URL's is planned
- * Multiple news source support is planned
- * Automated batch retrieval is planned
- * Off-line reading is planned
- * Auto-uuencoding for posting is planned
- * MIME support is planned
- * Background news pre-fetch (thread tasking) is planned
- * Newsgroup access control is planned
- * Port to OPENSTEP is planned
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- RADICALNEWS CURRENT FEATURES
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- * True article threading
- o Split browsers for threads, articles
- o Orders articles according to who's replying to whom
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- * Accurate tracking of cross-posted articles
- o Decrements counts & marks "read" across all groups
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- * Group-level catchup and posting
- o No need to read in entire group to catchup
- o Catchup many groups at once
- o Preview your posting before it goes out
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- * Article subject & author highlighting & tagging
- o Tag users, e.g., John Doe (a nice guy)
- o Highlight threads containing a specific user's articles
- o Highlight threads by subject keyword
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- * Article filtering and searching
- o Extensive filtering and searching support
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- * Article followup highlighting
- o Highlights your postings
- o Highlights threads containing followups to your postings
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- * Convenient user interface
- o Browser and/or List viewers provided
- o Article line counts displayed by author name
- o Article text not loaded if user defined threshold exceeded
- o Space bar pages forward through articles
- o Delete key moves backward through articles
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- * True article archiving and indexing
- o Creates a true article archive
- o Interfaces to Digital Librarian
- o Import foreign newsreader archives into RadicalNews archive
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- * Multiple article uudecoding
- o Automatic article sorting
- o Uudecodes binaries, sounds, pictures
- o Can decode an entire group's articles at once
- o Can decode multi-part attachments & partial files
- o Autolaunches appropriate application
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- * Multiple independent viewers
- o Different thread viewers for each newsgroup, if desired
- o Different group viewers for each newsgroup list, if desired
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- * Advanced Quoted Text Handling
- o Delineates quoted article text when viewing
- o Requotes article text to specified level when posting
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- * Flip Font (tm) Feature
- o Flip between primary and alternate article text fonts
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- * Advanced article retrieval
- o Efficient article object manipulation
- o Article size thresholding
- o Alphabetic / date sort of articles
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- * User-defined newsgroup lists
- o Create your own lists of any or all newsgroups
- o Alphabetic / user sort of list of newsgroups
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- * Fully user configurable graphical interface
- o Size, position, viewers, sound
- o Extensive support for color & fonts
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- * International newgroup support
- o Character set translation, input, and display for
- ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) and ISO 2022-JP (JIS/EUC)
- o NEXTSTEP-J's Clare Input System is supported for entering
- Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji.
- o Read and post in any of: ASCII, Latin-1, New-JIS, Old-JIS,
- Nec-JIS, Shift-JIS, or EUC encodings.
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- * Utilities interface
- o URL service support and flagging in articles
- o Full email support for article reply & forwarding
- o Print articles in either fixed pitch or RTF formats
- o Print Layout panel functionality supported
- o Launch Edit.app with current article
- o Duplicate menu entries for easy access to functions
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