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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