From: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea) Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: tin v1.00 - YAN (Yet Another Newsreader) Message-ID: <590@norisc.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 91 14:04:40 GMT Sender: iain@norisc.UUCP (Iain Lea) Organization: What organization? Lines: 61 Tin is a full screen threaded newsreader that uses the tass newsreader as its base. Tass was developed by Rich Skrenta (skrenta@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 -------------------------------------- 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. iain@estevax.uucp Credits ------- 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 -- NAME Iain Lea EMAIL norisc!iain@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