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- News Xpress Version 2.0 Beta #0
- Written by W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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- Overview
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- News Xpress(NX) is a Windows Sockets compliant USENET newsreader for
- Microsoft Windows that uses the NNTP to access newsgroups and articles on
- a news server.
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- Some of the key features of NX are:
- - support threads; in addition, it is also able to pack multipart articles
- automatically
- - support cross-posted articles management
- - support killfile; accept regular expression for specifying patterns
- - support local folders, and outbox
- - support CC-by-mail and Copy-self
- - built-in UUencode, UUdecode, and Base64
- - built-in JPEG viewer
- - MIME-conformant, support Quoted-Printable
- - launching URL automatically
- - remote find articles by Subject and Keywords
- - allow user to rebind keys
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- Known Problems
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- - GPF while decoding JPEG files, uncheck View Inline Image option in
- the Article tab of Options dialog box if stability is important to
- you
- - Archive doesn't work for multipart articles, you have to expand
- and archive each articles individually
- - Lock up if you exit NX while it's connecting to the news server
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- Unsupport Features in 1.0
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- - does not support multibyte character sets, e.g. BIG5, and SJIS
- - does not support automatic NewJIS to SJIS code conversion
- - does not support Undo in custom edit control
- - spell checker may not work as NX no longer uses Windows edit control
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- Acknowledgement
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- I wish to to express my appreciation for all the people who participated
- in the extensive NX alpha and beta test program, who have contributed a
- great deal to the user-friendliness, and robustness of NX.
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- Special thanks to
- Michael Denny, Brian Smither, Dong-Ick Lee
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- Copyright
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- Permission to use, copy and distribute this software and its documentation
- for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that it is not
- modified.
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- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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- Reporting Bugs
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- Mail your bug reports to Ken Ng <kenng@hk.super.net>. Please include the
- steps to reproduce the bugs, and any other information that might help
- me locate and correct the cause.
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- W.L. Ken, Ng <kenng@HongKong.Super.NET>
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