ka@spanky.UUCP (06/06/83)
I have posted release 2.10 of vnews to net.sources. Unlike the previous release, this release at least attempts to be portable. A number of new features have been added, including all the new 2.10 features except the digest command. For those of you who didn't see the previous release, vnews is a CRT oriented interface to readnews. - Yes, Mr. Ritchie, the same command (return) is used both to display more of the same article or the header of the next one. - Yes, tekecs!mcg, code for followups and replies is broken out into separate shell procedures. - Yes, hplabs!kg, vnews always displays the current newsgroup at the bottom of the screen so you won't forget it. - Yes, rlgvax!guy, vnews allows you to reply when you get to the last page of the article rather than after you display the header of the next one. - Yes, cdi!caf, vnews strips off the notesfile header. (It leaves the "- (nf)" on the title so you will know that the ti- tle may have been truncated.) - Yes, cornell!hal, if you exit the editor without writing the file, the mail will not be sent. But no, vnews will not group articles by topic or date; vnews is simply a different inter- face to the article selection routines in readnews. Although these particular features were in vnews before any of the articles were posted, I am always looking for new ideas, so take a look at vnews and then post some more suggestions. Kenneth Almquist