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This is the OS/2 port of the mthreads 3.1 package.
This is the maintenance release a (mthreads 3.1a for OS/2)
Mthreads is used to generate the threading database that is needed
by the TRN newsreader. In earlier versions of TRN mthreads was part
of the TRN package, today it is an own package.
The OS/2 port should provide all features of the original unix version
except for the daemon mode. The daemon mode uses a fork command to
generate a sub process that wakes up several times a day to check
the threading database if an update has to be done.
Since there is not fork call supported directly by OS/2 I decided
to remove this feature for now.
The original mthreads supports NNTP. This is not implemented in the
OS/2 version. I'm thinking of doing this as soon as I've solved
my TCP/IP - EMX problems.
To install the program just copy the executable to a directory in
your PATH, best would be the same directory where TRN or UUPC is
installed.
You need UUPC installed in order to use mthreads. mthreads reads
it's configuration from the UUPC configuration files and uses
an additional rc-file that is also needed for TRN. A example for
this file is included in this package. You must set an environment
variable to tell mthreads where it can find the file:
SET UUPCTRNRC=x:/pathname/trn.rc
Replace x: with your real drive and pathname with your real pathname.
This file has to include the following settings:
Newsadmin=root
MthreadsLib=d:/work/trn
LocalDist=local
OrganizationDist=local
CityDist=stgt
StateDist=world
CountryDist=world
ContinentDist=eunet
(The settings above are examples, change them to you needs!)
These settings are required not optional! Especially check for the
MthreadsLib setting, this was not used by the previous versions of
mthreads. This directory is used to store the mthreads log and lock
files.
To thread your news groups try
mthreads all
For more information please refer to the manual page.
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This package includes source and executables of mthreads 3.1.
If you have anything to say about the program (bug reports ug!)
please send an email to
haen@veces.bb.bawue.de (Herbert Neugebauer)
The original author is Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com>.
If you have requests for more functionality for the program you may
contact Wayne directly.
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