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- NN-TK
-
- The TCL/TK code provides a GUI interface with command
- menus and buttons.
- The features include:
- the use of the mouse to select articles
- a scrolling panel for displaying articles
- group selection using either of scrolling
- panel or cascading menus.
- If EXMH is available then there is also:
- an internal editor for posting items
- the ability to send and read MIME and PGP
- messages
- the ability to turn URL's into buttons for
- passing to MOSAIC (or another WWW reader).
-
- READING
- NN-TK follows the NN reading method where all the desired articles of
- each group are slected and then read, all the normal NN keys and
- commands can be used. The left mouse button can be used for selecting
- articles and dragged to select a range of articles. The PAGE buttons
- are the equivalent of SPACE key and provides paging through groups,
- subject and articles reading any selected articles.
-
- The right mouse button is used for the immediate reading of
- selected articles
-
- TCL DIRECTORY
- The tcl directory which contains the NN TK code is in the system NN
- lib directory. It can be overriden by having a local version of the
- directory in ~/.nn or the current directory. The order of search is
- . , ~/.nn , NN lib.
-
- DEFAULTS
- Some of the defaults for the nn TK interface are stored in the file
- nn-defaults in the tcl directory as X resources, these can be
- overridden by creating a file ~/.nn/nn-defaults. Most of these can
- still be overridden by options set using the setup menu, which stores
- its configuration values in ~/.nn/tk-config as X resources.
-
- EXMH
- To include the EXMH routines create a symbolic link named exmh in the
- tcl directory pointing to the EXMH lib directory. It isn't necessary
- to have MH installed. If EXMH is not available NN will still work, but
- will less functionality.
-
- CALLING TCL
- The tk extended command can be used for calling tcl/tk from
- nn macros
-