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Tutorials
These tutorials take you through the fundamental NewsRog concepts. The first five are best read in order, since they deal with progressively more advanced concepts, with each building on things learned in the previous. Click on the title at left to view the associated tutorial, or click on one of these toolbar buttons to go to the indicated areas.
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Tutorial 1: Projects |
This tutorial explains the operation of the main NewsRog toolbar . It explains what projects are, and how you save and load them. It explains the difference between online and offline mode, and how to switch between them, and how to access the main program windows. It should be straightforward to anyone with experience using the Amiga or other windowing system based computers. | ||||||
Tutorial 2: Usenet |
This tutorial explains the basic concepts of usenet news: what it is, how it works, where it came from, the difference between usenet and the internet, where to find usenet FAQs, news server requirements to use NewsRog, and guidelines for good posting etiquette. | ||||||
Tutorial 3: Common Features |
This tutorial explains common features available most places within the program, including online help, various features of lists, drag & drop, searching, sorting, column selection, and clipboard support. | ||||||
Tutorial 4: Initial Configuration |
How to configure NewsRog for your particular system: the function of the default project, adding news servers, and user configuration. (changing your user name and email address, posting organization, and cache sizes). | ||||||
Tutorial 5: Newsreading Basics |
Basic features for reading news: subscribing to and unsubscribing from news groups, function and operation of the group window, selecting articles to read, the article view area, single key browsing, and properly closing group windows. | ||||||
Tutorial 6: The Group List |
Features of the group list and server group list windows: group list buttons, displayable column data, group list menus, the server groups window, group list options, how to use Batch Download Filters, and viewing the FAQ Manager for a selected group. | ||||||
Tutorial 7: The Server List |
Features of the server list window: general server information, the purpose of the default server, server list commands, displayable column data, setting timeout values, server statistics, and tuning your configuration for maximum performance. | ||||||
Tutorial 8: The Network Connection List |
Network connections: a networking overview, how to abort network IO, what information is available about network connections, and how and when new network connections are created. | ||||||
Tutorial 9: The Post Queue |
The post queue and post editor windows: and overview of the on and offline posting system, how to create new posts, post queue commands, the use of the post editor, how to Preview your post before sending it, post line wrapping, the use of MIME for non-ASCII character encoding, and what information is available about posts. | ||||||
Tutorial 10: Multimedia Types |
The multimedia actions and type recognition system: how non-texual information is represented on usenet, what multimedia types are, how to define multimedia actions, how to set action parameters, the multimedia types recognition system, and various types of multimedia type matching. | ||||||
Tutorial 11: Config Options |
Program configuration options: a configuration overview, user, configuration, options related to projects, news options, options dealing with windows, configurations settings for posts, miscellaneous options, default columns, defining global filters, and adding new global variables. | ||||||
Tutorial 12: Selection, Kill, and Highlight Filters |
Selection, Kill, and Highlight filters: What they are, why they are useful, information on filter scope, on how filters are combined, adding and deleting filters, how to edit filters, filter common features, various ways to expire, filters automatically, editing filter global information, how to save and load filters, editing author notes, and viewing filter statistics. | ||||||
Tutorial 13: Display Filters |
Display filters: What they are, why they are useful, information on filter scope, adding and deleting filters, how to edit filters, filter common features, editing filter global information, how to save and load filters, and editing author notes. | ||||||
Tutorial 14: Group Reader |
This tutorial presents most of the intermediate and advanced concepts not
covered in
Tutorial 5 (Newsreading
Basics). It uses concepts from most of the previous tutorials, and
describes:
the main group window areas,
what the
status bar does,
how to
abort pending network operations,
the commands available from the
article list toolbar, including
changing the
list mode,
accessing the group's
FAQ manager,
using
highlight filters,
viewing
read or unread articles,
killing by thread or author,
changing the selection filter
view,
and running user defined
actions, and
searching through
article bodies.
The article viewer toolbar includes commands such as movement, article browsing, changing the display filter view, how to search for article text, and copying article text to the system clipboard. Lastly, group specific configuration options are explained, along with an overview of commands available from the group menus, the group statistics window, and how to configure and use Filter Function Toolbars.
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Tutorial 15: FAQ Manager |
This tutorial describes the NewsRog FAQ Manager. It describes the purpose and operation of the FAQ manager, the FAQ manager user interface, what a FAQ Server is, and common problems encountered when using the FAQ system. |