This chapter is intended for those who want to write ToadNews-compatible newsreaders & tools.
If you wish to write external decompressors or threaders for use with ToadNews, then e-mail jpmah@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca, and I'll send you a minimal development kit with sample code.
The ToadNews Active File Format
Another method exists for adding newsgroups for ToadNews to use. You do this by booting up your favorite text editor/word processor. (WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, McSink, Teach-Text) and opening a file called "ToadNews Active" this file can be found in the directory that you told ToadNews to put the news in. This file is a text file. If you use Word Perfect, Word or some other word processor that saves files in it's own special file format make sure you save the file as text only.