1996-06-02 15:13:07 +00:00
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Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses
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NNTP to get news. It displays the threads in a graphical tree.
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1995-11-19 16:55:05 +00:00
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Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
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Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines:
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1996-06-02 15:13:07 +00:00
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o Background threading of newsgroups
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1995-11-19 16:55:05 +00:00
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o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup.
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o A mechansim for reading the spool directory.
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o Kill file support. Articles can be
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- marked read (killed), or
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- marked with color blobs, based on regular expressions.
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o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list.
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o XPAT searching.
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o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
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o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys.
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o Supports multiple nntp servers.
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o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order.
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o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases.
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1996-06-02 15:13:07 +00:00
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o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts
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o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand
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o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets
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o Mailcap file support
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o save thread data between sessions
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o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache.
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o Less restrictive locking of the interface,
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edit killfile and such while knews is busy.
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o Message-id lookup of articles.
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