ANNOUNCEMENT: tin v1.00 - YAN (Yet Another Newsreader)
Iain Lea
its base. Tass was developed by Rich Skrenta (skr...@blekko.commodore.com).
Tin can read news locally and also via an NNTP server (-r option). Tin
contains more features than tass but they are still accessable to the
beginner and expert alike. I tried to follow the tass UI conventions as
much as possible.
This is a late beta release (I hope!). I am looking for people to test this
and send me ideas/comments & bugs so that I can correct any and then send
it off to comp.sources.misc sometime in the near future.
This is the only newsreader that I know of that threads on the Archive-name:
field as used in comp.sources.* groups as well as on the more normal Subject:
field. Before anyone comments on Subject: threading not being right and I
should look at trn, I have and its threads are neat but I get more done with
tin than trn. It is especially good at saving and processing saved articles
& threads.
Bugs and new features to be added are described in the file TODO
Built & used on the following machines
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1) Vax 8850 & Ultrix 4.1 (Developed & most tested platform)
2) Vax 11/785 & BSD 4.3
3) 386 PC & Xenix 386
4) 386 PC & ATT Unix SysVR4.0 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
5) 386 PC & SCO Unix SysVR3.2 (strange behaviour with inverse video)
6) 386 PC & ISC Unix SysVR3.2 with WINTCP (shakey ??)
I may be off the net for a couple of months at the end of September, but
will be contactable at the following address:
Iain J. Lea
BrueckenStr. 12
8500 Nuernberg 90
Germany.
Phone. +49-911-331963
Email. ia...@estevax.uucp
Credits
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I wish to give credit to the following people for the routines
that they have written and I have used in tin:
Rich Skrenta - tass v3.2 that tin is based upon.
Syd Weinstein - curses.c is taken from the elm mailreader
Rich Salz - wildmat regex pattern matching routine
Wayne Brandt - multi-part uudecode routine
I wish to thank the following people for comments & ideas:
Klaus Arzig, Reiner Balling, Georg Biehler, Peter Dressler,
Gerhard Ermer, Joachim Feld, Bernhard Gmelch, Joe Johnson,
Cyrill Jung, Clifford Luke, Toni Metz, Klaus Neuberger,
Otto Niesser, Fredy Schwatz, Bernd Schwerin, Chris Smith
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NAME Iain Lea
EMAIL norisc!ia...@estevax.UUCP ...!unido!estevax!norisc!iain
SNAIL Siemens AG, AUT 922C, Postfach 4848, Nuernberg, Germany
PHONE +49-911-895-3853, +49-911-895-3877, +49-911-331963
Mike O'Connor
:Tin is a full screen threaded newsreader that uses the tass newsreader as
Is this newsreader publically accessible?
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