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- LA Times 3.1
- Copyright (c) 1993-1994 by Steven Gutz
-
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- Introduction
- ------------
-
- LA Times is an NNTP news reader for IBM OS/2 2.11 (2.1 with CSD) and TCP/IP
- version 1.2.1 or later. It has been designed to be a replacement for the
- NewsReader/2 product currently shipping with TCP/IP.
-
- It offers:
-
- - Significant speed improvement over previous versions of LA Times, and is, in
- many cases, faster than NR/2.
- - Optional Toolbars for all windows
- - Subject Keyword searching (favorite subject searching)
- - Automatic UUENCODE/UUDECODE of binary information, including binaries
- spanning multiple articles.
- - Article body/header/both string searches
- - Optional notification and higlighting of replies to articles you post
- - True support for "spoiler" characters within articles
- - Ability to arrange subscription window
- - Multiple selects for marking, subscribing and unsubscribing.
- - ROT13 support.
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- Files in This Release
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-
- read.me - this file
- latimes.exe - LA Times 3.1 executable
- latimes.hlp - help file
- latimes.inf - help file in VIEW format
- latimes.mac - macro strings for quick insertion in to postings and e-mail
- latload.exe - program loader to avoid bug in OS/2 2.1 (not need for 2.11)
- news.ico - LA Times program icon
- uuencode.exe - support exe for uuencoding binary files
- uudecode.exe - support exe for uudecoding articles
- install.ini - updated INSTALL configuration for registered users
-
- Upgrading from Previous Versions
- --------------------------------
-
- - If you are upgrading from a version previous to 2.4 please contact me
- for the upgrade.
-
- - If you are upgrading from a version 2.4 or later, you can make a new install
- disk by unzipping the contents of this zip file to a floppy. Then copy the
- INSTALL.EXE file from your previous version onto the new floppy. You can
- then do an install as before.
-
- Install LA Times 3.1 to a new directory - DO NOT install 3.1 over a version
- of LA Times previous to 3.0. Once 3.1 is installed, you can copy *.DAT from
- your previous release as well as your .SIG, .KIL and .MAC files.
-
- - This is a 3.x patch. If have been using 3.0, you can place these file in
- you LA Times directory, overwritting the previous files.
-
-
- General Installation Notes
- --------------------------
-
- - If you are running OS/2 2.1 or older and you want to create a desktop object
- you will have to specify an object path pointing to LATLOAD.EXE rather than
- LATIMES.EXE. This is due to a bug in the Workplace Shell, which has been
- corrected in OS/2 2.11 or the 2.1 CSD.
- Registered users who install the new version in this scenario will have to
- edit the object created by INSTALL to point to LATLOAD.EXE.
-
- - If you are creating desktop objects for several different servers, specify
- the server name in the object's command line parameters by using the "-s"
- option and server name (i.e. -smy.news.server.com ).
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- Contacting me
- -------------
-
- You can reach me at:
-
- gutzs@crl.aecl.ca
-
- Please view the help of INF files for further contact information
-
- I usually read my mail between 6:30am and 3:30pm EST and I will typically
- respond within an hour or two. I will guarantee replies only to registered
- users, but I will make an effort to reply to anyone who sends me mail,
- particularly for bug reports.
-
- I'm alway looking for new features so if you have a good idea let me know and
- I'll see if I can squeeze it in to the next release.
-
- If you find what you think is a bug - PLEASE contact me so I can address the
- problem. Posting messages to newgropus about bugs is not very effective
- since I typically read news on a weekly basis rather than daily - email is
- MUCH better.
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