Short:    NNTP/SMTP/POP tools for THOR 2.01
Author:   Kjell Irgens/Petter Nilsen (thor@hstud6.cs.uit.no)
Uploader: Petter Nilsen (pettern@powertech.no)
Type:     comm/mail

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950725
                            ThorTCP Beta 4

                   Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 (V37) and
                   THOR 2.01 previously installed.

     Copyright © 1995 Ultima Thule Software, All Rights Reserved.
    Authors: Kjell Irgens & Petter Nilsen (thor@hstud6.cs.uit.no)

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About ThorTCP Beta 4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These  software  tools  provide an easy way receive and send news/mail
using a TCP/IP connection (like AmiTCP, AS225, MLink, etc). Tools are
provided that should satisfy both shell and GUI users.

NOTE:   All  the executables are compiles for AS225.  To use them with
AmiTCP,  you will need to install the socket.library emulation library
that  is included with Grapevine or can be found on Aminet in comm/net
as socketlib10a.lha.

GetTCP  is  used  for getting mail and news, while SendTCP is used for
sending  mail  and  news  that you have written, joining and resigning
newsgroups, etc. 

ConnectTHOR  is  used  for  integrating  these  programs into a single
program.  It also contain a nice news browser what will let you select
a  newsgroup and download only the articles you want be selecting them
from a list with dragselection.

NOTE:   These  programs are "work in progress" and not all features we
would  like to add is present at this time.  However, we feel that the
programs  are so stable and work so well that they should satisfy most
THOR users.

History
~~~~~~~
Beta 4:
-------
ConnectTHOR:
- Fixed the problem with ConnectTHOR asking for a password upon startup
  even though the password had been configured already.
- Fixed the DELETE switch problem once and for all (hopefully).
- MAXDAYS wasn't working correctly, should be fixed now.
- Configured POPPORT will be used.
- Configured background window picture will be used.
- Error messages should be displayed properly.
- Fixed a reference to freed memory when closing the newsbrowse window.

CfgTCP:
- Fixed a crash when quitting when Mungwall was running (used freed
  memory).
- Configured background window picture will be used.
- POP port can be configured to something else than 110, if needed.

GetTCP:
- "failure when adding message"-bug fixed. This one would also give
  an Enforcer hit.
- Should work better with all kinds of pop hosts.
- Will get the time from the newsserver so local clock will not
  be used (this was actually done in beta 3, but left out of the history
  file :).
- POP Port can be set on the command line, if started from shell.
- Will exit when password has been entered wrong (when run from shell).

SendTCP:
- Fixed a bug that could make it stop on some SMTP servers.

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PS: Please report any problems to thor@hstud6.cs.uit.no (THOR team)

The authors can also reached at the following ways:

Kjell Irgens:

     email: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no
IRC #amiga: Trooper1

Petter Nilsen:

     email: pettern@powertech.no
IRC #amiga: Mitchman


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
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     628     276 56.0% 10-Jul-95 00:14:54  ThorTCPBeta.info
   15780    7713 51.1% 24-Jul-95 20:38:30 +CfgTCP
   48224   25598 46.9% 25-Jul-95 10:34:42 +ConnectTHOR
     984     522 46.9% 21-Jul-95 04:27:54 +ConnectTHOR.info
   27792   15322 44.8% 25-Jul-95 10:34:38 +GetTCP
   15052    8525 43.3% 25-Jul-95 09:26:08 +SendTCP
     370     248 32.9% 25-Jul-95 10:09:50 +InstallTCP
    1233     503 59.2% 10-Jul-95 01:22:06 +InstallTCP.info
   44536   24222 45.6% 24-Jul-95 18:49:16 +utgui.library
   11388    4747 58.3% 25-Jul-95 10:43:10 +README.FIRST
     477     259 45.7% 10-Jul-95 05:29:50 +README.FIRST.info
     310     211 31.9% 23-Jun-95 05:31:42 +cfgtcp
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
  166774   88146 47.1% 26-Jul-95 11:33:54   12 files
