Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface. Its features include:
Knews-1.0b.1: description + notes
- True threading, with a graphical tree for the threads
- Clicking on URLs
- Inline images
- Full support for reading MIME articles:
- Handles Content-transfer-encodings QP, base64 and [x-]uue[ncode]
- You may specify different fonts for different charsets
- Experimental support for a few encoding schemes for 16 bit charsets
- Assembly of message/partial articles
- Understands multipart/* articles
- Uses mailcap-viewers for other content-types
- RFC1522 decoding of headers. (Those =?iso8859-1?Q?bl=E4?= things)
- Posting with attachments
- Some options that will improve things for people reading over slow lines:
- Background threading of groups in advance
- Doesn't have to read the active file on startup
- May cache group descriptions in a file between sessions
- Can use the "LIST ACTIVE wildmat" nntp extension
- Caching of thread information (also between sessions)
- Internal article cache for recently read articles, maximun size 32
- Background pre-fetching of up to 32 articles
- A mechansim for reading the spool directory
- Kill file support. Articles can be
based on regular expressions. Also per-group kill files
- marked read (killed), or
- marked with color blobs (hot)
- Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list
- XPAT searching
- Sorting of threads
- Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
- Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys
- Supports multiple NNTP servers
- Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order
- uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases
Please note that this package also requires the Freeware libjpeg, libpng, libxpm and libz packages.
Knews was written by Karl-Johan Johnsson. Vince Levey configured and build this package for IRIX 6.x.
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