************************************************************************** GoodNews v1.5 - Mail and News reader for UMS By Jean-Marc Xiume' 1996. GoodNews is based on IntuiNews v1.4 Copyright © 1993-1996 by Matthias Scheler and Markus Stipp, but they are neither responsible for it and nor will offer support for it. GoodNews uses MUI by Stefan Stuntz, see ReadMe.mui for more details. ************************************************************************** Introduction ------------ GoodNews is a software that enables you to read and write e-mail and news with UMS (Universal Message System). As IntuiNews's authors had the kindness to give the sources of their program, I decided to go ahead with developpement. At first time, I added or corrected the details that I personnaly found more important for a comfortable use. But the suggestion list remains long and open... :) To use GoodNews you either need to have Intuinews already installed in your ums.config file, or to have its documentation, as I did't wrote a whole new doc for GoodNews. Like any new version, there's likely to be some unwanted features left in this program (who said bug ? :) ). Please report me any problem. Installation ------------ Copy the executable GoodNews, its icon, and the Catalogs directory to the same directory as IntuiNews. Or simply copy that to UMS: direcory. Speaking of the catalog, you can also copy only your prefered language file (French or Deutsch) to the right system directory. For example, Locale:Catalogs/français/GoodNews.catalog . If you prefer English, just don't bother with the catalog :) Configuration ------------- Like Intuinews. There are two new config variables : - To make the lower buttons of the message window stay on a single line, add this in ums.config : ( IntuiNews.MessageWindow "small-bb" ) - To make the lower buttons of the article-list window stay on a single line, add this in ums.config : ( IntuiNews.ArticleWindow "small-bb" ) As you can see, the config variables names begins with "intuinews", in order to be fully compatible for those who are already using Intuinews and who'd like to test Goodnews. In the next release, the prefix will certainly be "goodnews". If you don't want to configure Goodnews' MUI interface, you can directly copy Intuinews' MUI config file, taking care of naming it with the Goodnews prefix, like this : copy envarc:mui/INTUINEWS.1.prefs envarc:mui/GOODNEWS.1.prefs . Using GoodNews -------------- For now, quite the same as Intuinews... So look at Intuinews' guide :) Read also the history at the end of this file to see what's new. Author ------ Jean-Marc Xiume' - fidonet : 2:320/104.22 - amiganet : 39:180/1.22 - usenet : jmx@mygale.org jmx@ramses.fdn.org If you use GoodNews, please just let me know ... see the "contact support" menu. Thanks to --------- - Martin Horneffer for creating UMS, and also to all those who program for this great system. - Matthias Scheler and Markus Stipp for Intuinews and its source code. - Jerome Fleury for his help in using MUI. - Eric Gerard for his beautiful MWB icons. - Jerome Fleury, Eric Gerard, Jean-Pierre riviere, Georges Goncalves, Pierre Delisle, Rodrigo Reyes, Christian Herblot (did I forgot someone ? :) ) for testing and for improvement ideas. History ------- * GoodNews 1.5 - 28 dec 1996 - The article list displays the date and the name of the recipient name (if available). - Changed the header of the message window : Displays the date, hour, and flags. Moved the name of the current newsgroup (or folder) to the window title. Allows to display a larger subject. - French catalog with new strings, update of the German catalog. - Possibility to followup a mail to a newsgroup. - Cycle buttons to choose the messagebase scan mode (ScanMode1 and ScanMode2) from the article list. That choice is local to this window and doesn't change the choice made in the group list window. - New MagicWorkbench icon by Eric Gérard. - Added the MessageWindow config variable to ums.config, allowing you to customize the message window : the lower buttons can be displayed on 2 lines as before, or on 1 line in order to gain some space in height. - Added the ArticleWindow config variable to ums.config, allowing you to customize the article list window : the lower buttons can be displayed on 1 line as before, or on 2 lines in order to make the 2 new buttons fit on small screens or with big fonts. * IntuiNews 1.4 - Original version by Matthias Scheler and Markus Stipp.