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News for Windows NT
Copyright (C) 1994-1995 Olav Tollefsen, All rights reserved.
Mail address: olav.tollefsen@nwo.mts.dec.com
This diskette contains a demo version of News for Windows NT.
News for Windows NT is a 32-bit Internet newsreader and requires
Windows NT 3.5 or Windows 95 to run. It will not run under Win32s.
This release may be freely copied and distributed world-wide.
If you do reproduce or distribute this material, all the files
included on this disk must be reproduced in their original form.
News for Windows NT is available from:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/news.zip
ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/news.zip
Versions in this release:
X1.0-66 for Alpha
X1.0-66 for Intel
INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
Remember to unzip the file with the -d switch to restore the
proper directory structure. There is no installation procedure
for this software. Simply execute the .EXE file which matches
your processor architecture.
Before posting articles, you need to set up templates for
creating new articles. Select "Tools->Options->Templates" and
enter your templates. Also make sure to fill in the information
about yourself in the "Tools->Options->User" dialog.
By default, News will keep all the configuration information in
the Registery database. If you want to use an external .newsrc
file to store information about your subscribed newsgroups, select
"Tools->Options->General" and change the settings. Make sure to make
a backup copy of your existing .newsrc file before doing this!
Sample templates
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- New Subject
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Newsgroups:
Distribution: world
Followup-To:
From:
Organization:
Subject:
Keywords:
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- Followup (Reply)
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Newsgroups:
Distribution: world
Followup-To:
From:
Organization:
Subject:
Keywords:
In article <Message-ID>
<From> wrote:
<ArticleQuote>
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Note! It is important that you enter a space after each colon
and enter a blank like after the last header field.
CHANGES/NEW FEATURES
X1.0-67
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- Fixed UUencode/UUdecode bug with multinational characters.
X1.0-66
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- The signature edit control now correctly accepts the return key
to enter multiple lines.
- Articles that are saved to a text file or UUdecoded are now
being marked as read even if you don't actually read the
articles into the read window.
X1.0-65
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- The font used in the Signature edit control is set to your
customized font.
- The filename when saving articles now defaults to "N.txt" where
N is the article number of the first selected article.
- The UUdecode code is more rebust and will recognize and ignore lines
containing various known comment strings inserted by different
UUencode packages.
- Bug causing two "Message sent successfully" messages after sending
SMTP mail and potentially causing a crash is fixed.
X1.0-64
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- UUdecode of multiple selected articles (Current restriction:
The selected articles *must* be in correct order 1/N..N/N
to produce the desired result).
- Save multiple selected articles to file
- New user interface for entering user specific information
(Email Address, Full Name, Organization, Reply To and Signature)
- New Signature suppport
- Added support for News Server Authorization in the user interface
(the information is currently not sent to the server)
- Improved Connect/Disconnect handling
- Changes to the settings in all the tabs of a tabbed dialog
are now saved when clicking OK. Previously only the settings
for the visible tab was saved.
- New "Mark All Articles Unread..." menu item under the Newsgroup
menu in the Subscribed Newsgroups view.
X1.0-63
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- Improved functionality for the SMTP Send Mail view. This
view is now an subclass of an article view.
- Added an "Add..." menu item to the Newsgroup menu while
reading in a newsgroup.
X1.0-62
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- Improved the edit capabilities for the SMTP Send Mail view.
X1.0-61
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- Added template suppport for mail messages.
X1.0-60
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- Improved SMTP support.
X1.0-59
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- Improved SMTP support.
X1.0-58
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- SMTP support added for sending mail directly from News.
Remember to configure "Mail" under "Options".
- Bug causing filtered articles with action "Mark Read" not
to be permanently marked as read is fixed.
X1.0-57
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- New "Catch Up All and Close" menu item on Article menu while
reading in a newsgroup.
- A bug causing the receive LED and number of received bytes to
be updated twice instead of once when data was received from
the NNTP server has been fixed.
X1.0-56
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- A bug causing the Newsgroup menu (and the popup) for the List All/New
Newsgroups to always be greyed out have been fixed.
- A bug causing the window to move when invoking the right mouse
button popup menu has been fixed.
X1.0-55
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- Improved color scheeme for highligted articles (was invible when
selected with Pastel color settings)
X1.0-54
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- Window placement of all types of windows are now saved/restored
- A crash when invoking a popup menu in an empty newsgroup list
window has been fixed.
- A bug causing the "Show Read Articles" option not to take effect
until settings where saved has been corrected.
X1.0-53
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- Window placement of the "Subscribed Newsgroups" window is saved/restored.
- Window placement and splitter position of the "Newsgroup" window
is saved/restored.
- Problem causing the Intel version to get a Windows sockets error
code 10038 on startup is fixed.
X1.0-52
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- A bug causing the Windows Sockets error code reported on a connect
failure to always be zero is fixed.
- New Article Filter action "Mark Read"
- A new "Reply..." menu choice to send a reply to the author of
an article by mail (needs SMTP gateway for MS Mail)
- A better looking 16x16 icon for Windows 95
X1.0-51
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- Crash on "Bad Article Number" is fixed
- List new newsgroups since a date is implemented (date input a bit unfinished)
- List of newsgroups can now be saved to a text file
X1.0-50
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- Article Filters are now saved.
- Article Filters matching have been improved. Both Newsgroup and Header
Expression are now matched using a substring.
- The View settings "Show Toolbar" and "Show Statusbar" are now saved
in the user profile (registry).
- The View setting "Show Column Headers" for the Subscribed Newsgroups view
are saved in the user profile.
- Show Tool Tips defaults to TRUE for new installs.
X1.0-49
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- Fixed bug causing an infinite loop when displaying items shorter than
the column heading in the article list view.
X1.0-48
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- The problem with an incorrect window style for the article read
window when running under Windows 95 has been fixed.
X1.0-47
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- It's now possible to open a newsgroup directly from the list
of newsgroups without subscribing to it.
X1.0-46
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- Incorrect pixel below splitter bar in Intel version is fixed.
X1.0-45
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- New prototype of "Article Filters" is included. You will not be able
to save the filters in this realease and the matching is very primitive.
Newsgroup has to match exact and the header must be a column in the
view and is matched as a substring.
- New popup menu when creating new articles.
X1.0-44
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- Use a threshold of 5% change for automatic column width adjustment to
avoid many small adjustments.
- Implemented prototype dialog for adding an "Article Filter" (see
"Add Filter..." on the popup menu while in an open newsgroup.
X1.0-43
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- Added automatic adjustment of header columns in the article
list view. This is based on the mean and standard deviation
of the width of the headers that have been shown in the list.
This algorithm is currently tuned so approxemately 90% of the
headers should be fully visible.
- Implemented more customizeable header features (customization
of the headers is not saved in this release).
- Show clock cursor while saving configuration and Newsrc data.
X1.0-42
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- The user specified font is also used in the article template edit
control.
X1.0-41
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- Fixed bug causing the Del key not to function correctly in article
windows.
X1.0-40
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- Ensure that the selected article in the article list window always is
fully visible.
X1.0-39
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- New article quote functionality. The variable <ArticleQuote> in
your followup article template will be replace with any selected
text in the article view of the article you do followup on, or
the body of the whole article (if no text is selected).
X1.0-38
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- Fixed bogous error message about incorrect format on UUdecode
- Catch Up with no artciles selected will do a Catch Up on all
articles.
X1.0-37
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- Fixed bug which caused the UUdecode menu item to be disabled
even when reading an article with UUencoded source.
- New integration with MS Mail using MAPI (Send Mail... from File menu)
X1.0-36
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- Accvio on blank lines in Newsrc file is fixed
- Some bug-fixes related to use of popup menus
- Added support for File Manager drag and drop into News
X1.0-35:
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- UUencode/UUdecode functionality is built into the article view
(automatic splitting of large files is currently NOT supported)