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INTRODUCTION TO NN
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This distribution contains release 6.3 of nn.
nn is a menu based (point and shoot) netnews reader with a complete
set of features to satisfy both the expert and the novice user. Since
its first release in Denmark in 1984 (!) and in Europe in 1988, it has
replaced rn and other well-known news readers at many sites.
Some of the key features of nn are:
* Menu-based article selection prior to reading the articles
with the articles sorted according to subject & posting time!
Significantly reduces the time spent on news reading.
No keystorkes are wasted on articles you don't want to read, and
only the articles selected on the menu will be read.
* Digests are automatically split and presented as ordinary articles!
You can transparently save and respond to individual subarticles.
* Full folder support: read, save, and delete individual articles.
* Online help and manual.
* Built-in unshar and patch functions.
* Easy remapping of keys with advanced macro definition features.
* Automatic kill & selection of articles based on subject or author.
* User specified presentation sequence of news groups based on the
news group hierarchy.
* Whole classes of news groups can easily be unsubscribed
permanently, e.g. talk.all and all.politics
* Blindingly fast 'search for subject'. On my Texas S1500 system,
nn uses less than 20 seconds to find all articles on a specific
subject among 64000 articles in all groups!
* News collection and presentation is extremely fast, because nn
uses its own database on top of the standard news system.
* In a distributed environment, the database can be shared among all
hosts on the network. Only one daemon is needed on the news server
for all hosts. This works in a heterogenous environment as well.
* NNTP is also supported (using a local database for speed).
Because of the database, nn starts almost equally fast (in a few
seconds), no matter whether you have 100 or 10000 unread articles!
The database takes up some disk space, but dramatically improves speed
and functionality. The amount of disk space consumed is approx. 1Mb
per 10000 articles.
DISTRIBUTION
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The package is posted as 15 separate shar archives on comp.sources.unix.
It is unpacked by applying /bin/sh to each archive in turn.
Everything is a little less than 730Kb, including documentation.
It is also available via anonymous ftp from
host: freja.diku.dk (129.142.96.1)
file: /pub/misc/nn-6.3.tar.Z (compressed tar)
COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 1989 by Kim Fabricius Storm.
Not derived from licensed software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use, modify, and reuse this
software for any purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute
it freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of this
software, no matter how awful, even if they arise from defects in
it.
2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by
explicit claim or by omission.
3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
misrepresented as being the original software.
The following code modules have been incorporated into nn, and the
above copyright notice does not apply to these modules; they include
their own copyright notices (or have none):
regexp.c: Copyright (c) 1986 by University of Toronto.
Written by Henry Spencer.
unshar.c: No copyright notice.
Written by K. Greer, S. Shafer, and M. Mauldin
INSTALLATION
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The installation procedure is described in the file INSTALLATION.
You may also find useful information in the files PROBLEMS and NNTP.
The file NEWS-6.3 describes the major changes from release 6.1 to 6.3.
BUGS and MAILING LIST
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Please send bug reports (and fixes) to the following address:
nn-bugs@dkuug.dk
You may also use nn-bugs for suggestions for improvements (missing
features in nn are considered to be bugs :-)
We have a moderated mailing list for users of nn. Its address is
nn-info@dkuug.dk
If you like to join the nn mailing list, send a request to
nn-info-request@dkuug.dk
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
----------------
My thanks goes to Rene' Seindal for his help before and after the
first major release of nn in Europe. He did intensive testing & bug
fixing & ported it to BSD 4.3 & SunOS, he is administering the nn-info
list, and he has also written the NNTP code for nn.
Since the development of nn is now on its fifth year, many persons
have contributed to nn with ideas and critisism, have helped me debug
the software by patiently using alpha and beta versions, have provided
bug fixes, and have helped porting it to other systems:
Jan H. Andersen, Norman H. Azadian, P{r Emanuelsson, Bruce Fisher,
Matthias Frei, S|ren O. Jensen, Poul-Henning Kamp, Michael Knudsen,
Tor Lillqvist, Kim Chr. Madsen, Lars Mathiesen, Dennis Olsson,
Carl-Lykke Pedersen (when he finishes the GNU-emacs front-end :-),
Alan Rooks, Rene' Seindal, Keld Simonsen, Jon Vos, Johan Vromans, Tom
Vijlbrief, Per Westerlund.
I would like this list to be complete, but it is impossible for me
to remember all the names of the people who have contributed to the
evolution of nn. My excuses to those who are not on the list.
Kim Fabricius Storm
Texas Instruments, Denmark
Email: storm@texas.dk
Snail: Marielundvej 46E, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark
tel: +45 429 17 400 fax: +45 429 18 400