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author | Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000 |
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committer | Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000 |
commit | 3a3e53568579586d8c160f6d2e6532c41df940d1 (patch) | |
tree | 7087a89fe632aa02662f79b10b6384294a707e78 /news/knews/pkg-descr | |
parent | 5952d52cc6b939f3c13cad9c9130323d1d1a3607 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/news/knews/pkg-descr b/news/knews/pkg-descr index 5115b559b362..cd341d018836 100644 --- a/news/knews/pkg-descr +++ b/news/knews/pkg-descr @@ -1,28 +1,22 @@ -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: - +Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP +to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for +reading MIME articles, except message/partial. 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 - - marked read (killed), or - - marked with color blobs, based on regular expressions. - o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list. - o XPAT searching. - o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles + 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 with color blobs + o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list + o XPAT searching + o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys. - 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 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. + o save thread data between sessions + o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache + o Less restrictive locking of the interface + o Message-id lookup of articles |