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World News V0.75
Copyright 1996-97 Danny Y. Wong
All Rights Reserved.
World News is copyrighted 1995-97 by Danny Y. Wong. You as the user
DO NOT have any rights to modify and/or change Air Mail in any form.
Permission is granted to distribute the DEMO version of World News as
long as the archive reamained unchanged.
Disclaimer: The author makes no warranties, either expressed or implied.
This program is provided on an "as is" basis and the author will not be
liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly by using
this program. Use at your own risk.
Please run the install.rexx script. All it does is ask you a few questions.
Requirements:
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- Any Amiga with WB 2.0 or higher
- HD is highly recommended
- MUI 3.2 or higher
- AmiTCP v4.0 or greater, Miami or TermiteTCP
- textfield.gadget (which is include in the installation)
- Lots of RAM and HD space
What to do now?
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Follow these steps to get World News working.
1. Run World News
2. Click on the 'Prefs' button to configure your environment.
There are currently four Pref settings more to come.
a. NNTP
- Setup NNTP for the news server and your ISP information
c. SMTP
- Here you setup the SMTP for mailing .
d. Paths
- It is very important that you setup the paths correctly because
World News uses these paths for storing and reading articles.
- Enter the UU and/or MIME program for decoding files.
e. Options
- General options for now. More to be added later.
f. Helpers
- external programs for viewing and playing sounds.
g. Colors
- Set up colors for read/unread articles listing.
h. Articles
- Setup article options
3. Once you have configured the paths its time to get the news groups.
Please do this step. It's the most important part and you will only
require to do this once.
- From the Menu select 'Groups' and then select 'Get ALL Groups' menu
item. This will connect to the news server and will retrieve the
entire news groups.
NOTE THIS WILL TAKE AWHILE SINCE THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF NEWS GROUPS.
It took me almost 30 minutes at 14.4K to download 1.2megs news group
names only!!!
At anytime you can select 'Cancel' but I don't advise you to do that
because you will always need a complete news group.
- Once World News finishes retrieving the news group it will do the
following.
Reorganize the news groups into sparate files. There are named from
A-Z. If you find that any news groups contains garbage then you can
edit the file directly since they are in ASCII.
4. When World News is done with the retrieval of news group names select
'Edit Group' from the menu. This will open the Edit User Group window.
You can also select the 'Edit Group' button.
The way World News works is group oriented. You can create a group
for anything you want. Eg: Amiga, Programming, Jokes etc.. World News
supports unlimited groups. You can select news groups from any of
the news groups.
The window is divided into three listviews.
Left ListView (Group Access)
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Contains a Alpha listing. When you click on an alpha World News will
retrieve all the news groups that belongs to that particalar alpha.
Eg: if you select 'D' you will get all the news group names in the
middle listview starting with the letter 'd'
Middle ListView (Current News Groups)
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Contains the actual news group names. You can scroll thru them and
drag and drop an item to the right listview.
Rigth ListView (Editing New Groups)
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Contains the current news group.
To add a news group to the list drag and drop an group name from the middle
listview to the right listview. You should see the right listview active.
To remove a news group from the right listview select the name and click
the Delete button.
You can add groups to your group from other alpha lists.
Buttons
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Save - save the current news group to disk.
Open - open a previously saved news group.
Delete - delete the selected news item on the right listview.
Clear - clear the right listview.
Cancel - close the window.
5. When you have created a news group you can now use it. Select the
'Open Groups' item from the 'Groups' menu or select the 'Open Group'
button.
This will open a window listing all the news group you have created so
far. To open a news group simply double click on the item or select
the news group and click on the 'Open' button.
6. When you open a news group another window is opened listing all actual
news group names. If you are connected to the news server World News
will try to get a count of all the articles in each news group.
To see the contents of each group just double click on the news group.
World News will now get all the article headings.
You can select 'Cancel' at any point during the retrieval of headers.
7. When you have some article headers you can now read the each article.
Just double click on the item and World News will load it into the
editor.
If the message is too large to fit into the editor World News will tell
you. Usually these large articles contains encoded files. Since
the article is partially loaded you have the following choice:
1. save the article to disk
2. decode the message
8. To configure MUI windows so that they will open up to the last size.
a. select 'MUI Prefs...' in the menu
b. select the 'Windows' item from list view in MUI Prefs.
c. select the third icon for the Gadget.
d. select Position: remeber on exit
e. save and exit
As you can see World News is nicely organized. Here are the current features.
- Up to 10 windows can be opened for each for:
- User Groups
- Article Heading listing
- Reading articles
- Folders Heading listing
- Decode encoded articles using uuxt3.1 and/or MIME.
Note that World News will not decode MIME articles without mime headers.
Decoded files will be stored in the Decode Path specified in the Prefs.
- Defered connection at startup. World News will automatically connects
to the server when you request communication.
- Tags. You can add a one line tag to your posting.
- Signature.
- Address Book. Maintain a user list.
- The best of all World News can use Air Mail preferences, Tags, Signature
and Address Book. Just check the checkbox in the prefs where it asks
if you want to use Air Mail's preferences.
Things I'm working on now
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- Add prefs more options.
- Icon interface
- Remembered read articles
- Cache files
- Better nagivation
If you have any requests it is a good time ask for it now. ;-)
Please report bugs!!!
Have fun
Danny