From megalith.miami.fl.us!overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us Thu Dec 17 23:37:32 1992 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA01241; Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:37:30 PST Received: from uunet.uu.net (via LOCALHOST.UU.NET) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA09670; Fri, 18 Dec 92 02:37:16 -0500 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uunet.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 023612.18753; Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:36:12 EST Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16/Amiga) id AA00mru; Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:27:40 EST Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16/Amiga) id AA00mr4; Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:27:20 EST Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:27:20 EST Message-Id: <9212180427.AA00mr3@megalith.miami.fl.us> Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: warnings@megalith.miami.fl.us Return-Path: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Reply-To: rob@spirits.ka.sub.org Message-Number: 304 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce From: rob@spirits.ka.sub.org (Roland Bless) (COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE) To: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Arn V1.00 available on FTP, anon uucp Status: R TITLE Arn VERSION V1.00 AUTHOR Roland Bless rob@spirits.ka.sub.org Fax: +49 211 623818 DESCRIPTION Arn is a newsreader for USENET/UUCP messages to use with Amiga UUCP installations (CNews and derivates or AmigaUUCP D). Arn is a fast newsreader which allows you to select groups and articles individually. It uses small databases (2% of newsvolume) for providing fast overviews over articles. It's simliar to the well known UN*X 'nn'-newsreader, but its no ported software. It offers much functionality to the user and is well configurable (runs with nearly all UUCP-installations). Especially when you have a lot of newsgroups and articles Arn is a good choice, because other newsreaders hold all their information in memory, but Arn tries to use as little as possible. Arn has a new scheme for managing newsgroups, which makes subscription and unsubscription easy. Arn is completely controllable via the keyboard. Intuition/mouse support is planned for further versions, but it has the advantage of being used via serial ports. Features: * table overview over newsgroups and articles * selection of groups and articles of interest * articles are grouped together by their subjects and then chronologically sorted * auto-selection and global/local kill-files * fast overview presentation of all articles by use of small databases * doesn't require much memory and is fast even with really many and large groups * configurable display of article-headers * built-in pager, recognizing extra long lines * full usage of screen sizes * multi-user support * works over the serial line (using termcap), too * rudimentary MIME support NEW FEATURES Since the V1.00 beta and V1.00 preliminary there has changed a lot: + AUX: support via termcap + configurable font + new method of managing (adding/removing) newsgroups + Arn now shows all threads chronologically + using upto 78 screen lines within selection screens + using local,environment variables for USERNAME etc. + Correct handling of empty newsgroups. + optimized screen refresh at group- and article-selection + Pager now can jump to bottom of the file. + search functions in group- and article level work now. + 'k' junk thread in pager + New design of key mappings. No longer Ctrl-keys, instead submenus are used. I hope they are now more orthogonal (consistent) than the old ones. + Complete rewrite of the manual (70 pages TeX). + "moderators"-file support. + additional check for "FollowUp-To: poster" and non existing groups. + longer subjects at article selector (depends on screen size) + limited MIME-support (qp and base64-decoding for text/plain). + many other changes SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Naturally, UUCP software is required for getting news. This can be CNews or AmigaUUCP 1.16D for example. CNews has an advantage over AmigaUUCP by providing an "active"-file, which lets ArnMaster build its databases faster (no scanning for new articles needed). Arn should work on any Amiga model. OS2.04 or higher is recommended, because a few functions are only available with this OS-versions. Nevertheless it should work with Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3, too. HOST NAME Arn is available via anonymous ftp from: amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) and its mirrors. iraun1.ira.uka.de (129.13.10.90) It also can be requested via ANONYMOUS UUCP from: flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606146 Any 2400-19200 (TrailBlazer2500) ogin: nuucp ssword: nuucp pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 661937 Any 300-16800 (Zyxel V.32 bis) Index in ~nuucp/pub/index ogin: nuucp ssword: nuucp DIRECTORY amiga.physik.unizh.ch: amiga/new/ or amiga/comm/news/ iraun1.ira.uka.de: pub/incoming/ pub/systems/amiga/ flatlin.ka.sub.org: ~/pub/amiga/ pilhuhn.ka.sub.org: ~nuucp/pub/amiga/ FILENAMES On all sites it should be: Arn100.lha PRICE Free. DISTRIBUTABILITY Arn is copyrighted software! Arn is (c)opyrighted by Roland Bless. You can distribute it unchanged for free (charging no more than the usual copying fee). It is allowed to upload it on commercial dialup services like BIX, Compuserve etc. Because UN*X newsreader are free, too, Arn is no explicit sharware, but you if you really enjoy it, you _can_ send a contribution. -- R o l a n d B l e s s |UUCP/USENET: rob@spirits.ka.sub.org IRC: rob| Groetzinger Strasse 44 |BITNET: UKG5@DKAUNI2.BITNET FAX: +49211623818 | 7500 Karlsruhe - FRG |---------spirits--in--the--material--world---------| voice +49 721 497381 | Die Menschheit lernt nie. Aus. | -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ==================================================================== This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs, Comments, Subscribes and UnSubcribes should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.