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- GRn GRn
-
- GRn - Gadtools Read News
- for AmigaUUCP
-
- GRn is a fully-featured Intuitionized Newsreader for the Amiga running
- 2.04 or above. GRn works with AmigaUUCP and C-News. For detailed
- information concerning the operation of GRn, refer to the file named
- GRn.man, which should be part of the GRn distribution. For information
- on how to install GRn, refer to the file INSTALL. For common problems,
- refer to the file PROBLEMS. It's easy to use, try it, and have fun!
-
- While running under the CLI (and the Workbench too with some PD packages),
- you can set the following environment variables:
-
- USERNAME - the name (login id) of the user running GRn
- NEWSEDITOR - the program to run to Edit outgoing News
- MAILEDITOR - the program to run to Edit outgoing Mail
- SENDMAIL - the program that actually sends Mail to UUCP
- POSTNEWS - the program that actually sends News to UUCP
- REALNAME - used by SENDMAIL and POSTNEWS (not by GRn directly)
-
- CLI:
- grn [[-u] | [-s newsgroup1 newsgroup2 ... newsgroupn]]
-
-
- -u : run in Update mode (update the user.newsrc only, no screens,
- no nothing). Safe to be run in batch from a Cron.
-
- -s newsgroupn : Subscribe to newsgroup named Newsgroupn. The
- newsgroup MUST exist on your system, or GRn will print an
- error.
-
- "-s" and "-u" are mutually exclusive, that is, they may NOT be
- specified at the same time.
-
- Workbench:
-
- GRn.info for Workbench users. The tooltypes are:
-
- TOP=top y coordinate of window
- LEFT=left x coordinate of window
- WIDTH=width of window
- HEIGHT=height of window
- MSGFONT=name of font
- MSGFONTSIZE=size of font
- LOGFILE=filename (full path!)
- WRAPCOL=column
-
- The grn.icon that comes with this release has these tooltypes
- commented out so you can see the exact format. Note for MSGFONT,
- you MUST use fontname.font format or GRn will fail with an
- unpredictable error message :). If the TOP, LEFT, WIDTH, and
- HEIGHT are specified, then GRn will NOT attempt top open its
- normal custom screen. Also, if you specify screen dimensions,
- they will override GRn's concept of what they should be. The
- WRAPCOL tooltype allows you to specify what column to wrap article
- text at. You will need to specify this if you use a font of your
- own choosing. TOPAZ 8 point font requires a wrap at somewhere
- between 60 and 64, while grn.font requires it at 80-84.
-
- The LOGFILE tooltype lets you specify the name of a file which GRn
- uses to print error messages and other log messages (currently
- only panic-style errors). Type the logfile out to see why GRn is
- failing when run from workbench. Logfile defaults to
- uuspool:logfile (always when run from CLI) unless overridden by
- the tooltype. If GRn fails for some reason before getting to
- figure out your logfile, it will print its panic message to
- uuspool:logfile as well.
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