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Archive Name: rxnews1a.zip
Program Description: RexxNews 1.0a NNTP Client Newsreader for OS/2 using rxSock
Operating System: OS/2 2.x
Program Source: Uploaded by author

[This file was uploaded to replace rxnews1.zip which had a flaw.  rxnews1.zip
 was available for about 20 minutes on April 19, 1993.]

Uploaded by: Albert Crosby  acrosby@uafhp.uark.edu

Proposed directory for placement: os2/2.x/networking

RexxNews v 1.0a is a simple NNTP based newsreader for OS/2 2.x.

It requires rxSock from the IBM EWS Program.

RexxNews's features include:

*  Reading news articles from an NNTP server with OS/2 2.x
*  No limit on article size or number of articles in a group
*  Can use a Unix .NEWSRC file to ease transition to RexxNews
*  Able to save articles to a file.
*  Able to search header fields and group list for specified strings.
*  Uses an external customization file.
*  Paging that understands formfeeds

Targets for later releases include:

Optional Visual Rexx support
Post and Followup commands
ROT13 decryption
NEXTGROUP/LASTGROUP commands to implement subscribed groups
Automatic reconnection in the event of server timeout

RexxNews is free software.  I'd appreciate hearing from about it's 
usefullness, if any, and any comments or suggestions for future
releases.

Be sure to look at the README.RXN and INSTALL.RXN files that come in
the archive.

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