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- Thu Jun 10 22:44:16 1993
-
- Version 0.80
-
- This is an NNTP newsreader for Microsoft Windows 3.1. You can use it
- to read and post Usenet News.
-
- Requirements:
-
- (winvnstd.zip)
- A WINSOCK compliant TCP/IP product. Make sure WINSOCK.DLL is in
- your path before starting Windows.
-
- *or*
-
- (winvnpwk.zip)
- A DEC Pathworks or Microsoft LanManager compatible WSOCKETS.DLL
- Dynamic Link Library. Make sure Windows can find it. (set your
- PATH environment variable).
-
- An NNTP News Server. It *must* support one of the following
- NNTP extenstions:
-
- XHDR (most news servers can do this)
- or
- XOVER (InternetNetNews is an example of a news server that does XOVER)
- WinVN will use XOVER if your server supports it.
-
- A 'NEWSRC' file. An example is provided. You *must* have the
- file there; WinVN won't write one out just randomly. It can be
- empty.
-
- A 'WINVN.INI' file. Edit this file to point to your news server,
- or you can later change parameters from within WinVN.
-
- An optional 'WINVN' environment variable, telling WinVN where to find
- its two configuration files: 'WINVN.INI' and 'NEWSRC'. You have to
- set this variable BEFORE you start up windows.
-
- You can also tell WINVN where to find the two files by giving
- command-line options with the 'Properties' menu under the Program Manager
- - here are a couple of examples
- (specify a directory to look in)
- winvn.exe d:\winvn\myserver
- (specify each of the two files separately)
- winvn.exe e:\winvn\myserver\winvn.ini u:\users\rushing\newsrc
- [I use this to set up different icons for different news servers.]
-
-
- The on-line documentation no longer matches the program exactly,
- but is pretty close. The documentation will be updated soon.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks to Mark Riordan for the original WinVN!
-
- Many people have worked on WinVN - it's been a fun and international
- project coordinating work on a piece of software.
-
- Here are a few of them:
-
- Matt Bretherton MBretherton@cmutual.com.au
- Jim Dumoulin dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
- Michael Downs mdowns@eos.arc.nasa.gov
- Michael Finken finken@conware.de
- Sam Rushing rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- (countless others I don't really mean leave out)
-
- You can reach (or join) 'The Developers' by sending mail to:
-
- winvn@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- (This is not a snazzy list server, it's an alias entry on a VMS Vax.)
-
-
- The official FTP site for WinVN is at titan.ksc.nasa.gov (128.159.4.20)
- in the directory [pub.win3.winvn]
-
- Always check there for the latest binaries and sources.
-
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-
- quick list of things undocumented:
-
- o in the group window, middle click will mark an article as read
- double-right click will 'catch-up' to that article (mark all as read)
- o smtp mail allows only *one* recipient. (sorry!)
- o forwarding an article with MAPI is not yet supported
- o double-clicking on a <message_id@host> in an article will attempt
- to grab that article from the server. This is a brain-dead feature,
- but can be convenient at times.
- o will try to use MAPI unless the winvn.ini param SMTPHost is set.
-
- -Sam
-
-