garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (12/03/90)
In article <130126@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: >/ simsong@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel) / Nov 29, 1990 / >> 3. It will automatically build hypertext links between articles. > >Nice. > >What I would very much like to see is a threaded index: > >1. All responses to a message are hidden behind the message that started >that thread. > >2. The number of new responses is indicated for each thread. (Or, at >least, a flag indicating that there are new responses.) >[stuff deleted here] You should check out the trn package that was recently posted in comp.sources.unix. This package is a threaded version of the rn news reader. When the user first invokes the news reader on a particular news group, he/she will see a screen like this: --- cut here --- a Michael Grant 1 >lawsuit flame b Ira Fuchs 1 >MIDI c Jacob Gore 1 >news reader --- more d Rob Weinberg 1 >BAD NEWS FOR MAC -> NEXT PEOPLE e Shawn Broderick 1 >FINALE on NeXTstation f Kent Paul Dolan 1 >Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! g Bi Chen 1 Fortran Complier on NeXT i Stephen R. Ander 1 mac SCSI tape on NeXT? j John Hodges 1 EDITABLE graphics translation posting response l Louis Janus 1 help on voice recognition o Chuck Herrick 1 help finding Unix sendmail papers -- Select threads -- All [Z>] -- --- cut here --- Strangely enough, all of the new messages this time had only a single new note per thread. For example, if there had been another note in the MIDI thread, then the thread labeled "b" would have a count of two (2) and another author and title listed below the "b" that appears above. As a bonus, the (possibly partial) hierarchy of the current thread group is shown in an ascii-graphics tree that appears in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Here is an example of what the tree structure looks like for this thread: comp.sys.next #10590 (8 more) (1)+-(1) From: Jacob Gore |-(2)--(2) [1] Re: news reader --- more \-[1] Date: Sun Dec 2 12:13:02 1990 Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 33 ---- CUT HERE --- Has anyone out there tried compiling trn on a NeXT? -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas