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New version of slrn newsreader released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Sep 16 15:27:28 1995
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:37:38 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: davis@space.mit.edu (John E. Davis)
Subject: New version of slrn newsreader released
Organization: Center for Space Research
Reply-To: davis@space.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Hi,
slrn0.7.8 has been released. It is available from space.mit.edu in
pub/davis/slrn. This version features xterm mouse support, improved man
page, and more.
For those not familiar with slrn, slrn is an easy to use but powerful
news reader that features:
* True referenced-based threading
* Draws a colored thread tree using line drawing characters
* Multiple server support
* Multiple windows
- Header summary window showing threads
- Article window
* Customizable
- Keybindings
- Colors
For example, the default colors, say, using a color xterm such as
rxvt, shows the top status bar in blue on white, the author's name
in the header summary window as magenta on white, the thread tree
as red lines connecting subject titles, the window status lines
appear as yellow on blue, the article headers in the article window
are cyan on white, the quoted text appears as red on white, and
the body of the article appears as blue on white.
- Server -> newsrc mappings
* Smart screen updating
* Online help which is also customizable
* Automatic reconnect if server drops connection
* Fast on slow modem connections. It does not read the whole active file
like many other newsreaders.
* Compile with TERM support under Linux
* XTerm mouse support
--John
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