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- From: lsr@taligent.com (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: NewsWatcher Help?
- Message-ID: <lsr-220193101128@lsr.taligent.com>
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- Organization: Taligent, Inc.
- References: <HURH-210193183910@131.225.123.13>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:16:04 GMT
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- In article <HURH-210193183910@131.225.123.13>, HURH@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Patrick
- Hurh) wrote:
- >
- > seem to be available...is there a user manual for this app?
-
- The "offical" place to get NewsWatcher is ftp.acns.nwu.edu in
- /pub/newsatcher. John Norstad has been doing most of the work on the
- program and I think he has some documentation there.
-
- > 1) Is there a way to keep articles read from 'disappearing' from the
- > newsgroup directory window? In other words if I open up a newsgroup with 5
-
- No. An article is either read or unread. Once read, NewsWatcher doesn't
- show it to you again.
-
- But the documents it saves contain text-only, and you can edit them to make
- an article unread if you know its article number.
-
- > 2) It would be nice to see the date of each posting to a newsgroup in the
- > article directory window without actually having to open each message.
-
- The latest NewsWatcher has an option to show authors as well as subjects
- and that could theoretically be extended to show any header field. But
- each header has to be fetched from the server separately (because of the
- way the NNTP protocol is defined) and so it will slow down opening a group.
-
- Larry Rosenstein
- Taligent, Inc.
-
- lsr@taligent.com
-