NewsWatcher 2.0b1 Announcement

July 3, 1994

NewsWatcher 2.1.2 is now available. (2.1.2 Release Notes; old release notes)

NewsWatcher is a free USENET newsreader for the Macintosh.

This is a major new release. New features include:

• New message window design
• Enhancements to saving files
• Fetching referenced files via anonymous FTP
• Extracting attached binary files
• Full drag and drop support
• Canceling articles
• Simple Latin-1 character set support
• Authentication
• Improved memory management and error handling
• Additional keyboard shortcuts
• Improved printing
• Many human interface improvements
• Many news handling improvements

All of the new features and changes are described in detail in the new 2.1.1 user document. (Also available in MS Word format.)

October 22, 1994 - Robert Lentz (lentz@rossi.astro.nwu.edu)