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- ATP 1.42 QWK READER now available
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- This is release 1.42 of ATP, a program to read and reply to QWK
- format mail and news commonly found on public dial-up BBSs. it
- includes many new features, numerous bug fixes and a general ongoing
- refinement of the code. It should compile without error on systems
- supporting ANSI/POSIX standard C. No oddball calls are used. K&R is
- NOT supported. ATP is copyrighted and distributed under the terms of
- the Free Software Foundation GNU General Public License. In other
- words, it is copyrighted but freely distributable under conditions
- contained in the GPL, (which means that any derived works MUST
- provide access to all source code as terms of the license). ATP
- evolved from an earlier work by Rene Cougnec, and also makes use
- of the Rich Salz and Simmule Turner editline library (covered by
- a separate copyright). Thanks to all who have contributed directly
- or indirectly. ATP has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux
- and also to tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux as:
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- atp142bin.tar.gz (Linux binary)
- atp142src.tar.gz (source code)
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- Features Include:
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- * Emacs style command-line editing with command history.
- * database style reader with enhanced maintenance of message bases.
- * separate conference for replies and personal mail.
- * re-edit, kill, or change security on replies.
- * text search conferences and headers, highlighting found text.
- * quick or full scan of message headers.
- * improved viewing of bulletins, welcome, and goodbye messages.
- * export replies ONLY when you want to.
- * supports PCB 15.0 long subject lines.
- * greatly expanded tagline manager.
- * no limits on number of taglines.
- * selectable Fido or PCB style taglines.
- * direct, random, or automatic tagline selection.
- * dynamic memory management.
- * 8192 conferences (fully compatible with older mail doors).
- * message size of up to 180,000 bytes (over 3000 lines).
- * support for work directories on different drives or file systems.
- * load multiple packets for reading at one time.
- * ANSI/POSIX compliance with full function prototyping for
- reliability and portability.
- * full source code available under terms of GNU GPL license.
-
- As with most software, please read the docs to get the most out
- of it. Two versions of the docs are here, atp.1 which is in nroff
- format and atp.doc which is plain text.
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