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GRn GRn
GRn - Gadtools Read News
for AmigaUUCP
GRn is a fully-featured Intuitionized Newsreader for the Amiga running
2.04 or above. GRn works with AmigaUUCP and C-News. For detailed
information concerning the operation of GRn, refer to the file named
GRn.man, which should be part of the GRn distribution. For information
on how to install GRn, refer to the file INSTALL. For common problems,
refer to the file PROBLEMS. It's easy to use, try it, and have fun!
While running under the CLI (and the Workbench too with some PD packages),
you can set the following environment variables:
USERNAME - the name (login id) of the user running GRn
NEWSEDITOR - the program to run to Edit outgoing News
MAILEDITOR - the program to run to Edit outgoing Mail
SENDMAIL - the program that actually sends Mail to UUCP
POSTNEWS - the program that actually sends News to UUCP
REALNAME - used by SENDMAIL and POSTNEWS (not by GRn directly)
CLI:
grn [[-u] | [-s newsgroup1 newsgroup2 ... newsgroupn]]
-u : run in Update mode (update the user.newsrc only, no screens,
no nothing). Safe to be run in batch from a Cron.
-s newsgroupn : Subscribe to newsgroup named Newsgroupn. The
newsgroup MUST exist on your system, or GRn will print an
error.
"-s" and "-u" are mutually exclusive, that is, they may NOT be
specified at the same time.
Workbench:
GRn.info for Workbench users. The tooltypes are:
TOP=top y coordinate of window
LEFT=left x coordinate of window
WIDTH=width of window
HEIGHT=height of window
MSGFONT=name of font
MSGFONTSIZE=size of font
LOGFILE=filename (full path!)
WRAPCOL=column
The grn.icon that comes with this release has these tooltypes
commented out so you can see the exact format. Note for MSGFONT,
you MUST use fontname.font format or GRn will fail with an
unpredictable error message :). If the TOP, LEFT, WIDTH, and
HEIGHT are specified, then GRn will NOT attempt top open its
normal custom screen. Also, if you specify screen dimensions,
they will override GRn's concept of what they should be. The
WRAPCOL tooltype allows you to specify what column to wrap article
text at. You will need to specify this if you use a font of your
own choosing. TOPAZ 8 point font requires a wrap at somewhere
between 60 and 64, while grn.font requires it at 80-84.
The LOGFILE tooltype lets you specify the name of a file which GRn
uses to print error messages and other log messages (currently
only panic-style errors). Type the logfile out to see why GRn is
failing when run from workbench. Logfile defaults to
uuspool:logfile (always when run from CLI) unless overridden by
the tooltype. If GRn fails for some reason before getting to
figure out your logfile, it will print its panic message to
uuspool:logfile as well.