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News Xpress Version 2.0 Beta #1
Written by W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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Overview
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News Xpress(NX) is a Windows Sockets compliant USENET newsreader for
Microsoft Windows that uses the NNTP to access newsgroups and articles on
a news server.
Some of the key features of NX are:
- support threads; in addition, it is also able to pack multipart articles
automatically
- support cross-posted articles management
- support killfile; accept regular expression for specifying patterns
- support local folders, and outbox
- support CC-by-mail and Copy-self
- built-in UUencode, UUdecode, and Base64
- built-in JPEG viewer
- MIME-conformant, support Quoted-Printable
- launching URL automatically
- remote find articles by Subject and Keywords
- allow user to rebind keys
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Major bug fixes
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- a lot of GPFs
- network connection lock-up problem
- check new groups doesn't work
- color palette problem (in 256 video card)
- decoding problem
- printing problem (multiple pages)
- killfile problem ('From' header)
- delete 'select all' text cause message composer to overrun the buffer
- user information for different server is stored separately in the registry
- file dialog box doesn't come out in NT 3.51
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What's New
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- customizable toolbar
- customizable colors
- allow user to selectively follow-up crossposted articles
- newsrc and folders accessing time has been improved
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Known Problems
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- GPF while decoding corrupted JPEG files, uncheck View Inline Image
option in the Article tab of Options dialog box if stability is critical
to you
- Bad user support and documentation!!!
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Unsupport Features in 1.0
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- does not support multibyte character sets, e.g. BIG5, and SJIS
- does not support automatic NewJIS to SJIS code conversion
- does not support Undo in custom edit control
- spell checker may not work as NX no longer uses Windows edit control
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Acknowledgement
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I wish to to express my appreciation for all the people who participated
in the extensive NX alpha and beta test program, who have contributed a
great deal to the user-friendliness, and robustness of NX.
Special thanks to
Michael Denny, Brian Smither, Dong-Ick Lee, Luu Tran
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Copyright
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Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its documentation
for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that it is not
modified.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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Reporting Bugs
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Mail your bug reports to Ken Ng <kenng@hk.super.net>. Please include the
steps to reproduce the bugs, and any other information that might help
me locate and correct the cause.
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W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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