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author | Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-02 15:13:07 +0000 |
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committer | Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-02 15:13:07 +0000 |
commit | 95ad3cdc9b3df23038dda2b98595765d78988059 (patch) | |
tree | be16fb069867a44196890bbea480ef145a4ae410 /news/knews/pkg-descr | |
parent | 3e49a1c21bd91a813e62ac4c824180f930b7ea08 (diff) |
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diff --git a/news/knews/pkg-descr b/news/knews/pkg-descr index 2f3961442d94..5115b559b362 100644 --- a/news/knews/pkg-descr +++ b/news/knews/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ -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. |