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authorJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1996-06-02 15:13:07 +0000
committerJoerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1996-06-02 15:13:07 +0000
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treebe16fb069867a44196890bbea480ef145a4ae410 /news/knews/pkg-descr
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-True threading, with a graphical tree for the threads.
+Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses
+NNTP to get news. It displays the threads in a graphical tree.
+
Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines:
- o Background threading of groups in advance.
+ o Background threading of newsgroups
o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup.
o A mechansim for reading the spool directory.
o Kill file support. Articles can be
@@ -15,3 +17,12 @@ Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines:
o Supports multiple nntp servers.
o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order.
o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases.
+ o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts
+ o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand
+ o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets
+ o Mailcap file support
+ o save thread data between sessions
+ o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache.
+ o Less restrictive locking of the interface,
+ edit killfile and such while knews is busy.
+ o Message-id lookup of articles.