weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) (03/30/88)
Gnews 1.4 is now on ucbvax for anonymous ftp, file /pub/gnews-1.4-tar.Z. This is the last version until June. Have fun--and please send comments! ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The changes from 1.3 => 1.4 are: The gnews-spool-machine defvar was moved to the top of gnewsutils.el. This is for the benefit of those having great difficulty getting Gnews to load/compile. Use of the kill-ring eliminated from all(?) Gnews internals. The badly erroneous 1.3 hook-kill junking bug is fixed. The old, annoying can't-easily-enter-long-unread-newsgroups bug is fixed. Bugs in group-last-seen (-), group-mark-later (M), {group,index}-catchup (c), group-next-same-subject (~N), group-first (^), fixed. Warnings are not made when the error is only 1. gnews-output-to-rmail-file now saves full headers and a summary line. You will probably want to modify your rmail-ignored-headers variable to further ignore any ugly news headers like Path, Distribution, etc. Several amark-* primitives have become macros. This should speed a few things up. The extra mail headers set by mail-self-blind, mail-archive-file-name, and mail-default-reply-to, are now set in e-reply buffers. DEL added as a binding for {group,pager}-mode's group-back (b), so that paging forward/backward through articles and indices are both more like view-mode. index-ignore (i) added for quick skipping over of topics. So for large newsgroups, sorting the index-buffer and "i"gnoring, along with a final catchup, should be a quick way to pass through everything. index-undo (U) now not only sets the index-buffer window contents back, but also resets the amark-list to correspond to the new display. Cross- posted junks are not undone, however. X/Mouse binding removed from index-mode-map. index-x-select still exists.
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (03/31/88)
In article <8136@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes: >Gnews 1.4 is now on ucbvax for anonymous ftp, file /pub/gnews-1.4-tar.Z. It's also on osu-cis for anonymous UUCP in files /u/public/gnews/gnews1.4.Z-a[a-c]. As always, get ~/GNU.how-to-get for details. -=- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob
chris@lxn.UUCP (Christopher D. Orr) (04/04/88)
Has anybody attempted to get Gnews running under System V yet ???? Or does anybody have anything better than the news library shipped with GNU ??