Short: Offline Newsreader Version 1.18 (MUI) Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk) Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk) Type: comm/news This version requires BetterString.mcc, TextEditor.mcc and NList.mcc. Please download comm/news/newscoaster.lha if you do not have these. NewsCoaster is an offline newsreader, which requires MUI. NewsCoaster is shareware, and the unregistered version if limited to viewing a maximum of two newsgroups. Please see the documentation for details on registering. NewsCoaster homepage at http://newscoaster.tripod.com/ My personal homepage at http://mark_harman.tripod.com/ New for version 1.18: - Bug fixes; under some circumstances, NewsCoaster would crash upon downloading certain messages - Other minor improvements and bug fixes New for version 1.17: - New 'supersede message' item, to overwrite your old posts on a newsserver - New statistics feature! - Better multithreading when download news; items appear as soon as they are downloaded; you can delete messages whilst downloading too - Option to download news for the currently selected newsgroup - Very simple ARexx port (more commands to come!) - Doubleclick on URLs to launch in a browser (via external ARexx script) - Can now locate news messages elsewhere (ie, doesn't have to be in NewsCoaster folder) - Copying to the same folder (ie, to duplicate message) is now allowed - Slightly faster moving/copying/deleting routines - Hopefully a bug fix in moving/deleting for some systems - Other minor improvements New for version 1.16: - Configurable colours for Message View window :) - Can configure which headers are to be displayed - Toolbar on main window New for version 1.15: - Bug fix - corrupted messages downloaded when a killfile was used, or messages with duplicate messageIDs found - Bug fix - dates may have been written incorrectly when posting messages using a machine with non-English language New for version 1.14: - Faster downloading. - Improved searching - in headers, body or entire message. - New option to add to the killfile based on a message (eg, kill on author, responses, etc), to make creating new killfiles much easier and quicker. - Option to reset article pointers in newsgroups. - Option to read in text from a file into the message you are writing. - Option to read in signature from file. - Bug fix - duplicate messageIDs weren't always being ignored. - Bug fix for dates on machines with non-English languages (you must select 'Update Index' on you newsgroups for this to take effect on old messages). - Aborting during move/copy/delete messages now works. - Option to update all indices. You can also abort updating an index, too. - Faster moving/deleting routines. - Other minor bug fixes and improvements. New for version 1.13: - Bug fix - when downloading from groups, in rare cases the article ID information was parsed incorrectly. - Group list is now not automatically sorted, allowing you to rearrange them as you wish (though you can do a sort if you wish). - Bug fix - now when you change the ordering of the groups list, NewsCoaster doesn't reread in the messages for groups unnecessarily. - Faster copying/moving/deleting routines. New for version 1.12: - New killfile - will detect a number given as the last word in Subject, eg, 'Make lots of money 1206' Such numbers usually indicate an advert or other off-topic announcement. You can now tell NewsCoaster to avoid these (when the number is 100 or greater). - Recognises '|' as a quoting character (before was just '>', ':' and '!'). - Bug fix when copying from a view window and pasting into a write window. New for Version 1.11: - Added 'Deleted' folder. - Added button on View window to delete current message and move onto next message. - When a new message is created, the folder no longer changes to 'Outgoing' (thus speeding things up, too). - Move/Copy doesn't require a folder change to the destination folder (speeding up things again). New for Version 1.1: - Email SMTP support! You can now reply to authors by email aswell as or instead of following up messages. - Search facilities. - 'Pop up' window on Write window to easily add/remove newsgroups to post and followup to. - Recognition of 'Followup-To: poster'. - Move and Copy messages to any folder. - Colours for quoted text have been set to something more sensible (no pink! - configurable colours will hopefully follow shortly..) - Fixed Authentification bug. - Fixed Move bugs when sending messages. - Changed shortcut of 'Close Window' on View window from 'c' to 'w', so you can copy text! (oops..) - Left and right cursor keys now move between messages on View window. Mark Harman 28.10.99 ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 4 4 0.0% 13-Jul-99 22:10:28 +default.index 1283 584 54.4% 09-Oct-99 23:44:18 +gotoURL.rx 1161 785 32.3% 05-Jul-99 21:35:30 +NewsCoaster.info 2403 767 68.0% 28-Oct-99 12:56:22 +install_newscoaster 1862 1008 45.8% 15-Oct-99 00:45:52 +install_newscoaster.info 210040 77511 63.0% 28-Oct-99 12:52:08 +NewsCoaster 70728 26153 63.0% 22-Sep-99 18:33:04 +NewsCoaster.guide 482 280 41.9% 15-Oct-99 00:50:20 +NewsCoaster.guide.info 1552 1179 24.0% 15-Oct-99 00:45:54 +NewsCoaster.info 4608 2091 54.6% 22-Sep-99 18:11:16 +NewsCoaster.readme 482 284 41.0% 15-Oct-99 00:50:12 +NewsCoaster.readme.info 1719 1098 36.1% 28-Oct-99 12:51:28 NewsCoaster.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 296324 111744 62.2% 30-Oct-99 10:32:18 12 files