From: sls@news.duke.edu (Shelley L. Shostak)
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Subject: [triangle.general] New version of rn available
Date: 17 Apr 92 10:47:46 GMT
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A new version of rn has been compiled and is available via anonymous ftp from
news.duke.edu.  There are several new features/improvements which are
summarized below.  System administrators are encouraged to update to the
most current version because the old version of rn did not adequately
determine if there were new newsgroups upon startup.  

Installation of the rn upgrade requires no changes to either the nntp or the
news binaries.  The rn4.4.3 sources include the same local modifications
which allow article cancellation based on domain name matching, as did the
previous distribution.

The new version of the binaries are available as:

sun4.update2.tar		Statically linked binaries for Sun 4
sun3.update2.tar		Statically linked binaries for Sun 3
ultrix-mips.update2.tar		Binaries for Dec Ultrix
next.update2.tar		Binaries for Next

The sources for rn4.4 are available as rn4.4.3.tar.Z and the complete source
file, src.tar.Z has been updated as well.

Send any problems to news@news.duke.edu

Shelley L. Shostak
News Administrator
Duke University
news@news.duke.edu

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New features of rn 4.4.3

   o	addng.c:  the new new-group-finding code is in here.

		    NEW FEATURES OF RN 4.4.3 vs RN 4.3

New % interpolation
	%E		the last directory to which extracted files were
			placed.

New or modified commands
	e		extract a shar or uuencoded file. (article level)
	g number	g command will go to a newsgroup by number where the
			the number corresponds to that used in the list 
			supplied by the 'L' command. (newsgroup level)
	z		supersede an article (article level)

New magic (use +H to turn them off)
	-Hfrom		displays only the commented portion of the user name.

New environment variables
	AUTOSUBSCRIBE	newsgroup pattern for groups to automatically
			subscribe to when found. Groups not matching
			are presented to the user via the usual
			subscription prompts.
	AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE newsgroup pattern for groups to not subscribe to.
			Groups matching this pattern are not subsribed to.
	EXSAVER		shell command that starts an extraction.
	UNSHAR		the unshar program to use (default /bin/sh).
	REPLYTO		the value to use for the "Reply-To:" header, if
			needed.
	NEWSORG		Same as ORGANIZATION. Used for those sites that
			need ORGANIZATION for other purposes (Apollos).
	SUPERSEDEHEADER The header format to use for a 'z' command.

New % interpolations
	%#		keeps an incremental count during a multi-file save,
			extract, etc.  ":s part.%#"
	%e		the last command executed to extract an article.

General improvements
	MMDF is now officially supported as a mail transfer agent.
	
Miscellaneous
	The newsgroups script now knows how to deal with "bogus" newsgroups.
	[These are groups in the active files marked with status 'x'.]
	
	rrn now exits and leaves the terminal in a usable state when a
	server timeout occurs.

	rrn now supports the longest lines allowed by the NNTP RFC.
	
	rn will try to preserve permissions on .newsrc when it recreates
	it. Previously, it didn't do this.

	

-- 
	Shelley L. Shostak			(919) 660-6573
	Computer Science Dept.			sls@duke.cs.duke.edu
	Duke University 
	Durham, N.C.      27706