tin - a Usenet reader
Release 1.3 950520BETA compiled for NeXTSTEP 3.x

Introduction
This is a Version of tin compiled 4-fat, and is intened at this stage only for people with some UNIX / Usenet knownledge. This means, if you never used tin or any newsreader before, please read the documentation in ./doc, ./INSTALL ./src/Makefile and make sure you understood what you read.

The problem with tin is, as with most UNIX software, that quite a bit of information has to be hardcoded on compile time.

This tin comes with the following restrictions, for clarification, please RTFM:

-DNNTPONLY	does NOT read news via spoolfile
-DNNTP_MAIL_GATEWAY=$NNTP_MAIL_GATEWAY	read ./INSTALL

Installation for the impatient
·	copy ./src/tin to a convenient place (like /usr/local/bin/, ~/bin or ~/Unix/bin), and thin it down to the used architecture(s).
·	copy the man-page ./doc/tin.1 (or the german version ./doc/german/tin.1) to a Manual-Directory, and do a makewhatis over that manual-tree.
·	Set up your nntpserver in the environment-variable NNTPSERVER (setenv NNTPSERVER newshost.my.domain or export NNTPSERVER=newshost.my.domain, depending on your shell), if you don't set the variable, tin tries to connect to the host named 'news' withhin your domain. The usage of a /etc/nntpserver file seemed to have been removed in this version.
·	Set up your organization, same as above, just use ORGANIZATION, or create a file named  /etc/organization, containing just the desired string ²
·	Set your Mail/News-relay host  in the environmet INEWS_MAIL_GATEWAY, or in the file /etc/inews_mail_gateway, please read ./INSTALL on how to set this one up, and test your setting on a test-newsgroup. The original tin only let you use either environment or files (or hardwired entry), I changed it to check first for an environment variable, and then for the file.
² not required for proper operation

Installation
·	Read ./INSTALL, ./src/Makefile, and make the need changes.
·	thin the binary as needed
·	Do a make install
·	proceed with step three from above

Final Notes
·	I have an unstripped version of this binary, if anybody experiences regular crashes or missbehaviour, and knows what gdb can be used for, (s)he can contact me.
·	I'm working on a more 'NeXTish' Version, that can use defaults and netinfo (puke!), for a easier configuration (especially for big installations, where /etc/ is local to each client).
·	Since there is (to my knownledge) no free VT100 Emulator with proper iso-8859-1 emulation, probabely tin has to do a proper conversion (and should of course use it only if displaying on NeXT-Terminals, and not on proper Terminals)

Daniel G. Kluge (aka clösch), June 11 1995