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SUBMISSION: MIME Compliant RadicalNews 0.9.1
June 2, 1997 - Anaheim Hills, California.
Radical System Solutions, a long-time provider of object oriented expertise
to the professional market, is proud to release the latest free beta version
of RadicalNews. RadicalNews is an advanced object-oriented newsreader,
designed for the discriminating NEXTSTEP marketplace.
RadicalNews 0.9.1 provides MIME compliant USENET news reading and posting and in-line image displaying of both MIME images and "ordinary" UUENCODED images. Non-image binary data is displayed as an icon and launched on a double-click. To display images other than tiff, you will need to install an appropriate image filter such as OmniImage or ImageViewer.
New Features:
MIME SUPPORT:
- The following MIME types/subtypes are supported on reading:
text/plain
text/enriched
text/html (displayed as icon -- launched via double-click in
your web browser)
image/<image-type> (displayed in-line if proper image filter is
installed)
application/<application-type> (displayed as icon)
audio/<audio-type> (displayed as icon)
video/<video-type> (displayed as icon)
multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
(message/rfc822 and message/partial will be supported in a
future release)
- The following MIME types/subtypes are supported for posting:
text/plain (with appropriate character set indication)
- The following MIME transfer encoding types are supported:
base64
quoted-printable
x-uuencode
7bit
8bit
- The following MIME character sets are supported:
us-ascii
iso-8859-1
iso-2022-jp (requires RadicalNews-J for Japanese character display)
IMAGE DISPLAYING:
- UUENCODED or BASE64 images are now displayed in-line if the entire image is
contained within one post.
- Drag and Drop Images -- Images can be dragged from the news display
directly, or launched into your favorite image application with a
double-click.
- Images are automatically removed on Follow-ups, email forwards, or
email replies and replaced with "[***<Image Removed>***]".
PROBLEMS FIXED:
- Find panel now works properly with MIME and "ordinary" articles.
- Article headers are now decoded properly when archived.
- "Post and Reply" now encodes email into the character set indicated in
the Post Viewer window.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
- Printing news articles with embedded images does not print the image.
(Work-around: double-click on the image and print it from an image viewer).
- Text viewer does not scroll horizontally when image exceeds right text
boundary
(Work-around: double-click on the image to launch it into an image
viewer).
RadicalNews is built quad-fat, running on Motorola, Intel, Sparc, and HP
platforms with NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. (NEXTSTEP 3.0/3.1 will work, but are
not supported.) The J version requires NEXTSTEP-J. The beta version is
free, and will run until December 31, 1997. After the beta period, a license
may be purchased. The beta version may be available via anonymous ftp at:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNews.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/demos/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNews.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/news/RadicalNewsJ.0.9.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz
Our web site will have updated information and links to the most current
version:
http://www.radical.com/
For further information, contact:
Radical System Solutions, Inc.
mailto:RadicalNews@Radical.Com
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.