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New version of slrn newsreader available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Nov 22 18:19:18 1995
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 23:00:53 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: davis@space.mit.edu (John E. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: New version of slrn newsreader available
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Organization: Center for Space Research
Reply-To: davis@space.mit.edu
Summary: New version of slrn is available from space.mit.edu:/pub/davis/slrn
Keywords: slrn slang newsreader mime
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Version 0.8.2-1 of slrn is available from space.mit.edu in pub/davis/jed.
It may also be obtained from the European mirror site ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
int pub/unix/misc/slang.
slrn now has support for MIME articles. This means that one can now use
non-ASCII characters in news articles headers and slrn will properly
encode/decode such headers in a way that it is totally transparent to the
user.
Here is a brief list of features:
* MIME support
* True referenced-based threading
* Score (Kill) file support with scores that can be set to expire
* 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
* Easy uudecoding of articles
- --John
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