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- Package Name: SNews
- Latest Version: 1.91
- Last updated: August 1993
- Developer/Author:
- John McCombs (1.12)
- Email: john@ahuriri.gen.nz
-
- Michael Studte (1.9)
- Email: michael@izumi.dialix.oz.au
-
- Daniel Fandrich (1.91)
- Email: dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca or CompuServe: 72365,306
-
- News Support: Yes
-
- Price: Free -- distributed under GNU Public License
-
- Availability: Anonymous FTP:
- DOS executables
- ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snews191.zip
- OS/2 executables
- ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191o.zip
- Source code
- ftp.wimsey.com:~ftp/pub/msdos/uupc/snws191s.zip
-
- Support: "Yes, but only after you've tried hard yourself"
-
- Source code available: Yes -- Borland C source included in distribution
-
- System requirements:
- OS/2 boxes running UUCP/extended
- DOS boxes running UUCP/extended
- Minimum CPU 8088
- Minimum VID all (INT 10h BIOS compatible)
- Minimum RAM 120k reading, ~500k unbatching
- Program Disk 200k
- News SPOOL Capability ~8000 articles/group (limited by RAM)
- OS Version MS-DOS 2.0 (probably)
- Runs with Windows in a DOS window
- Serial Support (via UUPC)
- Max SIO Speed (via UUPC)
-
- Protocols supported:
- Uses UUPC/extended for data transport
- Two files per newsgroup storage
-
- Package Blurb:
-
- 'Simple NEWS' is an news add-on for UUPC. It is designed to handle
- Usenet news as a leaf node, and offers:
-
- - Threaded news reading. This allows you to be much more
- selective about what you read, enabling you to cover many more
- newsgroups.
-
- - When a cross-posted article is read, the news-reader
- marks all the other instances of the article as read, too.
-
- - Separate rc files are kept for each user which record the individual
- articles that you have seen. This is in contrast to some readers
- which simply record the highest article number read.
-
- - Usual range of response facilities: follow-up news, reply by mail,
- forward by mail, save article/thread to disk.
-
- - The extract function (key "w") saves articles to a user-specified
- file in the UUPC mailbox format (with a header of 20 hex 01's).
- Thus, extracted news articles can be read with the mail program
- later, at the user's convenience.
-
- - Built-in support for ISO 8859/1/2/3/4/9 character sets (RFC 1341
- and RFC 1342) and a single key interface to the metamail MIME
- decoder (or other user-specified program).
-
- - Article storage in two files per newsgroup, rather than one file per
- article. This results in an enormous saving (up to 3:1) in disk
- space on disks with a default cluster size of 4 KB per cluster.
-
- - Processing of batched compressed or uncompressed news. Control
- messages are not processed.
-
- - Duplicate cross-posted articles are killed during the unbatch stage.
-
- - Post articles are unbatched and uncompressed. You can only post
- to your 'mailserv' -- you cannot feed another site. Posting can
- only be done from within the news reader SNews.
-
- - 'Received date' oriented expire to maintain the news database.
-
- - Works with UUPC/extended 1.11n or greater.
-
- Msg from Author:
-
- There is also a version of SNews that works with KA9Q rather than
- UUPC. It is available from ftp.demon.co.uk as /pub/giles/snews121.zip.
- Remember that this version does *not* work with UUPC.
-
- OS/2 port from DOS SNEWS 1.0 by Kai Uwe Rommel (SNEWS /2 ver. 2.0) is also
- available.
- Email: rommel@jonas.bofe.sub.org or rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Requires UUCP/extended OS/2 version
-