From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: GRn1.16f features
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:22:07 GMT
Organization: Private UUCP Node
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <liam.06q2@durie.amigans.gen.nz> liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood) writes:
>     Will GRn 1.16f be more 'hi-res' friendly? That is will it either open a
> full window for reading the news item, or allow you to specify an external
> viewer for reading the item. A number of people have tried GRn and liked it
> except for its' insistance on running in interlace (usably anyhow...).
>
>     Why don't you post the features list now and forstall all these questions?

The basic operation of GRn 1.16f has not changed. It still attempts to open
a 640x400 window on whatever screen it can (user specified public screen,
default public screen, custom screen, in that order).

The CHANGES file (just for 1.16f) is almost 16k.

This is the README file for 1.16f, which gives a very bare-bones description
of the new features/changes:

                                      GRn

                               Gadtools Read News
                                  for the Amiga

                                      by

Mike Schwartz                                         Michael B. Smith
1124 Fremont Ave.                                     P.O. Box 6791
Los Altos, CA  94024                                  Charlottesville, VA  22906

mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org                               mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us


GRn is FreeWare.  But, if you have a desire to donate, please feel free.  :)

We've gone to a great deal of trouble to try to make sure that GRn is as usable
and bug-free as possible,  but we can't guarantee it. Use GRn at your own risk.
================================================================================

This is version 1.16f of GRn.

The file CHANGES documents the changes since the last release (1.16e) of GRn.
The file INSTALL documents how to install GRn.
The file PROBLEMS describes some common problems experienced using GRn.
The file GRn.man gives an in-depth description on the arguments GRn accepts.
The file GRn.doc gives an in-depth description on the operation of GRn.

The file TODO describes future planned enhancements/corrections to GRn.

Major changes since 1.16e:

    GRn now builds itself a path when started from the Workbench. GRn no longer
    must be in the same directory as all the UUCP binaries.

    Online Subscriptions. You may now subscribe online. GRn no longer scans the
    entire news spool on startup.

    Shell arguments. GRn now accepts all tooltypes as arguments.

    NNTP. GRn can now read news via serial based NNTP and Ethernet based NNTP.

    All sorts (Sort by Subject, etc.) now work properly and do not "drop"
    articles.

    PUBSCREEN is implemented so you may open GRn on the specified public
    screen.

    More environment variables recognized. If all UUCP/NNTP-related variables
    are defined in the environment, GRn will not try to open a CONFIG file.

    More stable. GRn now handles many more errors properly.

    Improved C-News support.

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  //   Michael B. Smith
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