[1433] in linux-announce channel archive
XRN (X news reader) 8.01 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 01:41:03 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 00:51:35 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: XRN (X news reader) 8.01 released
Followup-to: news.software.readers
Organization: OpenVision Technologies, Inc.
Reply-To: bug-xrn@cam.ov.com
Keywords: X, Usenet, News
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
[NOTE: Because comp.os.linux.announce and comp.windows.x.announce are
moderated and articles in them are approved separately, I have to post
this message three separate times -- once to comp.os.linux.announce,
once to comp.windows.x.announce, and once to both comp.windows.x.apps
and news.software.readers. I apologize if you see the message more
than once.]
Version 8.01 of XRN, an X news reader, has been released. This
release primarily contains bug fixes, although there is also some
minimal new functionality. All users of previous versions of XRN are
encouraged to update to this version.
Source code for this version of XRN is available in the following
locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-8.01.tgz>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz>
A patch file from release 8.00 to release 8.01, in unidiff format, is
available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-8.00-8.01.patch>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/8.00-8.01.patch>
Source code should also soon be available in comp.sources.x. A binary
distribution for Linux is available in the following locations:
<URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-linux.tgz>
<URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn-linux.tgz>
(These files and the ".tgz" files listed above are GNU tar files
compressed with GNU zip.)
Below, you will find a list of enhancements, functionality changes and
bug fixes in this release, extracted from the ChangeLog file in the
source distribution. Following that list is the Linux Software Map
(LSM) entry for the Linux binary distribution of XRN 8.01.
As with previous XRN releases, I am indebted to the members of the
xrn-users@cam.ov.com mailing list (see the README file in the
distribution for information about joining the list) who have tested
the pre-release versions of XRN 8.01 and helped me by finding bugs,
providing bug fixes, making suggestions and providing other useful
feedback. Thanks!
*************************
Sat Dec 2 20:41:39 1995 Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com>
*** Significant user-visible changes in XRN 8.01:
** Bug fixes:
* XRN would sometimes enter a newsgroup even tnough there weren't
any articles in it, and when it did, it got wedged in article mode
and refused to accept any commands. (reported by Hugues Leroy
<Hugues.Leroy@irisa.fr>)
* For users with an external editorCommand, XRN was coredumping on
attempts to post an article or send a mail message that was not a
response to a previous message. (reported by
dennett@image.Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett))
* A couple of key bindings were inactive because of ambiguities in
the translation tables in the app-defaults file. (reported by
Wayne D Richardson <wdr@VNET.IBM.COM>).
** Changes in functionality:
* If the user had cacheActive set to True, and he read news using
a news reader other than XRN between two invocations of XRN, then
XRN's cache would become obsolete and XRN would become convinced
when it was run the second time that there were article numbering
problems and mark all articles unread in the groups that were read
by the other news reader. Now, when XRN encounters an article
numbering problem in a cached active file entry, it will retrieve
new statistics about the group from the server, to see if they
agree with what's in the user's .newsrc, before deciding that
there is an article numbering problem. (reported by
dennett@image.Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett))
** Enhancements:
* 'l' has been added to the list of valid action characters in the
verboseKill option. When 'l' is specified, each KILL-file pattern
is displayed as it is processed.
* The buttonsOnTop X resource, which causes buttons to go above
the windows they modify rather than below them, primarily so that
the main button box won't change locations in between modes, has
been added. (code submitted by nelson@lan.nsc.com
(Taed Nelson), with some additional changes by me).
*************************
Begin3
Title: xrn-linux
Version: 8.01
Entered-date: 04DEC95
Description: X news reader
Keywords: X, Usenet, News
Author: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens), Ellen Santovich,
Rick Spickelmier
Maintained-by: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens)
Primary-site: ftp.cam.ov.com /pub/xrn
128459 xrn-linux.tgz
1k xrn-linux.lsm
Alternate-site: ftp.x.org /contrib/applications/xrn
Original-site: ftp.cam.ov.com /pub/xrn
284035 8.01.tgz
Platforms: XFree86 3.1.2 (ELF), libc 5.0.9
Copying-policy: BSD
End
- --
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2i
iQCVAwUBMMjAp4QRll5MupLRAQGwwAQA0D2ixNTdMA879lFT/6Or3u2lVRT4kooR
W1MHdbHiOFMxolRyamCrJaeqgyER8izFdxFIEVETIqwBf6kdS1WRm2P6FO07hI52
ZcJ1GeJBjYxqt1axVH4MDil6UUrndAGvh6rtDJTlnbroCS8N4N6UknX6JwlihX+x
IeSyPU5AyB0=
=fXz3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP.
Finger wirzeniu@kruuna.helsinki.fi for PGP key needed for validating signature.
Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov
PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION.
