[4267] in SIPB bug reports
tin installed for decmips, rs6k, sun, linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 24 04:26:36 1993
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 04:24:22 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: jfc@MIT.EDU
Well, Martha's work with trn tonight inspired me to go ahead and
install tin in the sipb locker, since clari.feature.dilbert has real
traffic now and tin will DTRT (NOTE: you probably need both `mime' and
`graphics' in your path for it to be usefull). There are a few bugs
to work out yet (most notably, John Carr gets his .newsrc trashed
sometimes by, I suspect, having single lines longer than 8192
characters; not sure about this yet). I've been using it for a long
while now and haven't had any problems, so I installed it.
Note that it will create a directory ~/.tin when run, and will create
News and Mail directories by default, if they don't already exist
(these are configurable).
This is the description from the manpage:
DESCRIPTION
Tin is a full-screen easy to use Netnews reader. It can read
news locally (i.e. /usr/spool/news) or remotely (rtin or tin
-r option) via a NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol)
server. Cdtin can read news locally and news archived on
CD-ROM. It will automatically utilize nov (news overview)
style index files if available locally or via the nntp xover
command.
Tin has five separate levels of operation: Group selection
level, Spooldir selection level, Group level, Thread level
and Article level. Use the 'h' (help) command to view a
list of the commands available at a particular level.
On startup tin will show a list of the newsgroups found in
$HOME/.newsrc. An arrow '->' or highlighted bar will point
to the first newsgroup. Move to a group by using the
terminal arrow keys (terminal dependent) or 'j' and 'k'.
Use PgUp/PgDn (terminal dependent) or Ctrl-U and Ctrl-D to
page up/down. Enter a newsgroup by pressing RETURN.
The TAB key advances to the next newsgroup with unread
articles and enters it.
