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Features in THOR

What is so special about THOR?

Several things. First, it is as far as we know the only general offline reader for the Amiga with true 'history'. This means that all messages will be added to a database, and may be recalled later. Threads may be followed forwards and backwards.

Furthermore, THOR supports more different message formats than any other offline reader on ANY platform, and new ones are easily added because THOR is a very open system. At this point THOR supports section The ABBS/MBBS system type, section The QWK system type, section The BlueWave system type, section The SOUP system type, section The UUCP system type, section The FIDO system type, section The TCP system type, section The Omen system type and section The Hippo system type (BBBS) systems.

THOR also has a name database that contains data on people who have written messages on the system you are using. This makes it easy to enter a message to someone, just enter a few letters from this persons name and a window will come up containing suggestions based on the letters you wrote.

THOR uses an advanced buffering system to be able to get best possible performance on disk operations. Copy-back buffering is used when messages are added to the database by the different parser programs, and write-through buffering is used elsewhere. The number and size of buffers can be set in the Global Configuration in ConfigTHOR.

THOR sports a complete Style Guide compliant 2.x-look GUI with extended features if run under OS 3.0 or higher. Since gadtools.library from Commodore doesn't support color in listviews easily, we have made our own custom listview to be able to have color and ANSI in the listview. THOR is also completely font-sensitive and most windows can be rescaled and their position saved. Selection of screenmode, fonts to use, palette etc. is also supported. Since many of the gadgets are custom made by us, many of the features available previously only to OS 3.x users, are also available for OS 2.04 users. THOR uses pen sharing under OS 3.0 or higher, and a separate background picture in the windows and on the screen is supported. This feature uses the datatypes.library and the pen sharing available in OS 3.0 and higher.

THOR fully supports the 24-bit picture.datatype.

THOR has online help using the AmigaGuide system from Commodore, so whenever you want help, pressing the HELP key will bring up help on the window or the menu under the pointer.

THOR has an advanced built-in editor called the Full Screen Editor (FSE) This editor will satisfy most users, but you can of course use an external editor if you like. See section THOR Full Screen Editor.

THOR has a flexible system for purging conferences based on number of days and/or maximum number of messages. XPK packing of the message database is also supported directly with a high degree of flexibility.

THOR has a high-speed search function which lets you search for a given key word, with several different search options.

THOR has an internal filedatabase that can be used for keeping e.g. a full list of files on Aminet or from the systems you call.

THOR has an extensive Kill/Emphasize database that will let you kill or put an emphasize on messages based on any criteria in the message data, with wildcards.

THOR has extensive Arexx support and includes a lot of useful arexx scripts. These includes uuencode, crosspostings, mailinglists, chess(!) etc.

THOR has locale support, and supports a wide range of international character sets, like ISO, IBM, NO7, SF7, DE7, etc. If you wish to translate THOR to a language not already supported, please contact us.

THOR has 13 ways of marking a message or a range of messages, e.g. mark messages to you as unread, mark all messages with a certain subject as read or mark messages from a user as read.

THOR has extensive section MIME support in THOR for the Internet news and mail types, including base64 file attachment and quoted-printable. Received MIME pictures can even be viewing inline in the listview!


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