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Fidonet News Reader v16ß
(c) 1993 by Edwin Groothuis
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
FNNR - Fidonet News Reader - version 16
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-- TABLE OF CONTENTS --
TABLE OF CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
1. INTRODUCTION, WARNINGS AND CREDITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. REGISTER INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1 Register form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1 FNNR.CTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Compiling the nodelist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. RUNNING FNNR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1 The basics of FNNR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2 Changing between windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.1 Main-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2.2 Message-list-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2.3 Message-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.4 Netmail-list-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.5 Netmail-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3 Command descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.1 The Mainwindow commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.2 The Message-list-window commands . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3.3 The Message-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.4 Netmail-list-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3.5 Netmail-window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1 Creating a new echo-message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.2 Creating a new netmail-message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.3 Replying to an echo-message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.4 Replying to a netmail-message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.5 Netmail-reply on an echo-message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. OTHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.1 Converting from other mailreaders . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2 Next versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.3 Known errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.4 Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Page i
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FNNR - Fidonet News Reader - version 16
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1. INTRODUCTION, WARNINGS AND CREDITS
FNNR stands for Fidonet News Reader and is created because of two
reasons: I became sick using FrontDoor's FM and (and maybe the most
important on that moment) I needed something to program. It is a very
expanded version of my Usenet News Reader (UNR), but since I haven't
released that program nobody will know what I mean with that.
This program must not be used at a BBS's messagebase directly because
it changes several flags in the messageheader such as the received-
and deleted-flag. Everytime you read a message, the received-flag
will be set. If a user of your BBS has not yet read that message, the
search for new mail for him will fail because the BBS-program will
think the user has already received that message and displays not-
hing.
FNNR is distributed as shareware. This means that you are free to
distribute this program to anyone you like, as long as you don't
charge for it, modify the program in any way, or add files to the
original distribution archives.
I can't give you any guarantees that this program will work at your
place. If it does, you're lucky. If it doesn't, too bad, try another
program for reading your mail. If you find any bugs, typos or things
like that please send me a message with the problem (addresses here
below).
I will hereby thank the beta-testers for taking the risc of blowing
up their messagebase while using my program.
And also thanks to Ralf Brown for his spawno-routines and DJ Murdoch
for his Stream-unit, Alec Bergamini for the advanced TurboVision-
editor.
Edwin Groothuis
Johann Strausslaan 1
5583ZA Aalst-Waalre
The Netherlands
Fidonet : 2:284/205.1
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2. REGISTER INFORMATION
FNNR is distributed as shareware. This means that you are free to
distribute this program to anyone you like, as long as you don't
charge for it, modify the program in any way or add files to the
original distribution archives.
You're even free to use it... for a 30 days trial-period. After that
period you must decide between stop to use FNNR or register the
program. If you register you'll get a key-file. This file must be
appended to FNNR.CTL. This will remove the shareware-reminder at the
end of the program and put a + behind the tearline. That's all,
but... I'm making a set of usefull (?) programs to manipulate the
messagebase and they will be sent to you. If there is a new version
of FNNR, you'll be the first who get copy of it. If you want more
things to be implemented, just ask and I'll think about it.
The price for registrering FNNR for users in the Netherlands is fl
40,-. For users outside the Netherlands it's US$ 25,-. If you regis-
ter, please fill in the registrationform on the next page. Since
changing foreign money is very expensive in the Netherlands, I ask
users outside the Netherlands not the send checks or moneyorders but
an US$ 20,- and an US$ 5,- bill.