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HNNews 0.96
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* Very special thanks to MiscKit *
(C) Copyright 1996, 1997 by Hayan Nalgae Software
All rights reserved.
If you find bugs or have suggestion about this software,
contact Hayan Nalgae Software.
http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/
mailto:hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr
* Introduction
HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader.
HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily.
HNNews is commercial product.
* License
You can use all features of HNNews for 15 minutes. If you want to
use without time limit, you should buy this product. If you buy
HNNews 0.95, you don't need to pay the upgrade fee until HNNews 1.0.
License fee is US $40 for single user license. For detail, see
http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/.
* System Requirements
- HNNews works on NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.0 or 4.1.
- HNNews works on Intel, Motorola, Sparc, HPPA.
* HNNews's main feature
- Multi Tasking : You can see already downloaded articles while
downloading new article headers, or new article bodies. And you
can download articles from many news servers at the same time.
- Graphical environment : You can see threaded article's follow-ups
graphically. And you can set article for retrieval, lock,
watch-thread, ignore-thread with clicking its icon or menu, and
HNNews shows articles status by color and icon. You can do many
things by tool-bar icons which show you BUBBLE help. And HNNews
has Gradient background, and gradient titlebar. And HNNews can
show progress graphically.
- Saving downloaded articles to database : Every time you navigate
usenet, HNNews will save downloaded articles, so next time you start
HNNews, you don't need to reload already downloaded article
headers or bodies. If you navigate news server by modem, HNNews
saves a lot of money for you!
- Easy to use and fast to go : HNNews's menu was sorted well, so
even beginner can use very easily. And if you set simple header
mode, HNNews retrieve only necessary infomation from server by
testing simple header mode automatically. (Eg: XOVER, XHDR, HEAD)
You don't need to know what kind of server daemon your news server
has. (Eg: innd, nntpd, etc) And you can navigate HNNews by
key-binding.
- Powerful feature for expert of USENET : Thread-watch,
thread-ignore, purging and lots of preferences that you can set,
multi windows for each server will make you more powerful
USENETizen.
- Online, Offline newsreader : You can see already downloaded
articles at offline. You can switch online, offline by clicking
button, it's very easy!
- Multi-langauge support : Each newsgroup can have its own
langugae, which may have its own fontset and decoding, encoding
method. For example, you can see English newsgroups with English
fonts, and Japanese newsgroups with Japanese fonts. HNNews will
help you to see all the newsgroups with different codesets.
- MIME and UUDecode binary articles : HNNews can decode MIME encoded
article, and show MIME binary in internal Article Text.
And you can extract binary files by unpacking or uudecoding binary
files with external "munpack" program. After extracting binary
files, HNNews will launch proper viewer of that file types
directly. And HNNews can decode multi-parted binary articles.
- Internal mail : HNNews can email, reply, forward internally by
using built-in NeXTSTEP program.
* Changes from 0.95
- Support for mail TIFF Database in /LocalLibrary/Images/People.
- Support for X-Image-URL header. http and ftp urls are fully
supported.
- The pop-up list entitled with All, Unread, Read was added to
Article List View.
- HNNews now saves all pop-up lists' position in Main Window.
- Previous version showed old article's body after purging when
retrieving Article Headers. This bug was fixed.
- Previous version showed always Gerneral Preferences when launching
Preferences panel. Now HNNews shows last-selected preferences.
- Previous version crashed sometimes after retrieving Article
Headers. This bug was fixed.
- Previous version crashed sometimes when aborting online task like
retrieving Article Headers. This bug was fixed.
- Previous version crashed sometimes when showing Korean or Japanese
characters. This bug was fixed.
* Installation
Just copy HNNews.app to ~/Apps or /LocalApps.
* Thanks to...
The MiscKit project
Anders Bertelrud <anders@vt.edu> who made GradientKit
University of Washington for c-client library
Carnegie Mellon University for munpack
And all the people who sent suggestions and bug report.
* Copyright of c-client library
Author: Mark Crispin
Networks and Distributed Computing
Computing & Communications
University of Washington
Administration Building, AG-44
Seattle, WA 98195
Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU
Copyright 1993 by the University of Washington
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notices appear in all copies and
that both the above copyright notices and this permission notice
appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of the
University of Washington or The Leland Stanford Junior University
not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution
of the software without specific, written prior permission. This
software is made available "as is", and
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR
UNIVERSITY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD
TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ALL IMPLIED
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AND IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON OR THE LELAND
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