----------- HNNews 0.96 ----------- * Very special thanks to MiscKit * (C) Copyright 1996, 1997 by Hayan Nalgae Software All rights reserved. If you find bugs or have suggestion about this software, contact Hayan Nalgae Software. http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/ mailto:hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr * Introduction HNNews is powerful multi-tasking USENET newsreader. HNNews gives you ability of navigating news servers very easily. HNNews is commercial product. * License You can use all features of HNNews for 15 minutes. If you want to use without time limit, you should buy this product. If you buy HNNews 0.95, you don't need to pay the upgrade fee until HNNews 1.0. License fee is US $40 for single user license. For detail, see http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~hnalgae/. * System Requirements - HNNews works on NEXTSTEP 3.3 or OPENSTEP 4.0 or 4.1. - HNNews works on Intel, Motorola, Sparc, HPPA. * HNNews's main feature - Multi Tasking : You can see already downloaded articles while downloading new article headers, or new article bodies. And you can download articles from many news servers at the same time. - Graphical environment : You can see threaded article's follow-ups graphically. And you can set article for retrieval, lock, watch-thread, ignore-thread with clicking its icon or menu, and HNNews shows articles status by color and icon. You can do many things by tool-bar icons which show you BUBBLE help. And HNNews has Gradient background, and gradient titlebar. And HNNews can show progress graphically. - Saving downloaded articles to database : Every time you navigate usenet, HNNews will save downloaded articles, so next time you start HNNews, you don't need to reload already downloaded article headers or bodies. If you navigate news server by modem, HNNews saves a lot of money for you! - Easy to use and fast to go : HNNews's menu was sorted well, so even beginner can use very easily. And if you set simple header mode, HNNews retrieve only necessary infomation from server by testing simple header mode automatically. (Eg: XOVER, XHDR, HEAD) You don't need to know what kind of server daemon your news server has. (Eg: innd, nntpd, etc) And you can navigate HNNews by key-binding. - Powerful feature for expert of USENET : Thread-watch, thread-ignore, purging and lots of preferences that you can set, multi windows for each server will make you more powerful USENETizen. - Online, Offline newsreader : You can see already downloaded articles at offline. You can switch online, offline by clicking button, it's very easy! - Multi-langauge support : Each newsgroup can have its own langugae, which may have its own fontset and decoding, encoding method. For example, you can see English newsgroups with English fonts, and Japanese newsgroups with Japanese fonts. HNNews will help you to see all the newsgroups with different codesets. - MIME and UUDecode binary articles : HNNews can decode MIME encoded article, and show MIME binary in internal Article Text. And you can extract binary files by unpacking or uudecoding binary files with external "munpack" program. After extracting binary files, HNNews will launch proper viewer of that file types directly. And HNNews can decode multi-parted binary articles. - Internal mail : HNNews can email, reply, forward internally by using built-in NeXTSTEP program. * Changes from 0.95 - Support for mail TIFF Database in /LocalLibrary/Images/People. - Support for X-Image-URL header. http and ftp urls are fully supported. - The pop-up list entitled with All, Unread, Read was added to Article List View. - HNNews now saves all pop-up lists' position in Main Window. - Previous version showed old article's body after purging when retrieving Article Headers. This bug was fixed. - Previous version showed always Gerneral Preferences when launching Preferences panel. Now HNNews shows last-selected preferences. - Previous version crashed sometimes after retrieving Article Headers. This bug was fixed. - Previous version crashed sometimes when aborting online task like retrieving Article Headers. This bug was fixed. - Previous version crashed sometimes when showing Korean or Japanese characters. This bug was fixed. * Installation Just copy HNNews.app to ~/Apps or /LocalApps. * Thanks to... The MiscKit project Anders Bertelrud who made GradientKit University of Washington for c-client library Carnegie Mellon University for munpack And all the people who sent suggestions and bug report. * Copyright of c-client library Author: Mark Crispin Networks and Distributed Computing Computing & Communications University of Washington Administration Building, AG-44 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU Copyright 1993 by the University of Washington Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notices appear in all copies and that both the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of the University of Washington or The Leland Stanford Junior University not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. 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