Thursday August 11, 1994 7:33pm Version 0.92.2 This is an NNTP newsreader for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows/NT. You can use it to read and post Usenet News, and send email (via SMTP or MAPI) Requirements: For WINSOCK (v1.0 or higher) compliant TCP/IP stacks (called WINSOCK.DLL): (using gwinsock.dll) A WINSOCK compliant TCP/IP product such as Trumpet, PC/TCP, NetManage TCP/IP, Microsoft LanManager 2.2, DEC Pathworks 5.0. Make sure WINSOCK.DLL is in your path before starting Windows. *or* For NON-WINSOCK TCP/IP stacks: (using pwksock.dll) A DEC Pathworks v4.1 or Microsoft LanManager 2.1a compatible WSOCKETS.DLL Dynamic Link Library. Make sure Windows can find it. (set your PATH environment variable). An NNTP News Server. It *must* support one of the following NNTP extenstions: XHDR (most news servers can do this) or XOVER (InternetNetNews is an example of a news server that does XOVER) WinVN will use XOVER if your server supports it. A 'NEWSRC' file. An example is provided. You *must* have the file there; WinVN won't write one out just randomly. It can be empty. A 'WINVN.INI' file. Edit this file to point to your news server, or you can later change parameters from within WinVN. An optional 'WINVN' environment variable, telling WinVN where to find its two configuration files: 'WINVN.INI' and 'NEWSRC'. You have to set this variable BEFORE you start up windows. You can also tell WINVN where to find the two files by giving command-line options with the 'Properties' menu under the Program Manager - here are a couple of examples (specify a directory to look in) winvn.exe d:\winvn\myserver (specify each of the two files separately) winvn.exe e:\winvn\myserver\winvn.ini u:\users\rushing\newsrc [I use this to set up different icons for different news servers.] The on-line documentation no longer matches the program exactly. Lots of new undocumented features have been added, but most should be obvious. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Mark Riordan for the original WinVN! Many people have worked on WinVN - it's been a fun, international project. Here are a few of them: Matt Bretherton MBretherton@cmutual.com.au Harvey Brydon brydon@tulsa.dowell.slb.com John S. Cooper jcooper@netcom.com Michael Downs mdowns@eos.arc.nasa.gov Jim Dumoulin dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov Michael Finken finken@conware.de Don Gardner gardnerd@keystone.ksc.nasa.gov Jody Glasser jglas@tdycont.com Masaki Ishido ishidou@yhp.hp.com Conor Nolan cnolan@tcd.ie Mark Riordan mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu Sam Rushing rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov (countless others I don't really mean leave out) You can send comments to the WinVN developers by sending mail to: winvn@titan.ksc.nasa.gov If you don't mind alot of traffic on WinVN, you can join the developers by sending mail to: winvn-request@titan.ksc.nasa.gov (This is not a snazzy list server, it's an alias entry on a VMS Vax.) An easy way to keep up on winvn developments is to point your newsreader at 'niven.ksc.nasa.gov' (128.159.4.21). There should be a single newsgroup, (mail.winvn) which is a gatewayed version of the mailing list. Announcements and discussions of common problems can be found here. It's very likely the best place to get the scoop on _your_ problem. If mail gets much worse, we may consider starting an ALT group. The official FTP site for WinVN is at ftp.ksc.nasa.gov (128.159.4.20) in the directory [pub.win3.winvn] Always check there for the latest binaries and sources. Matching hardcopy documentation by Jim Dumoulin (dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov) for this release is available on FTP.KSC.NASA.GOV. -Sam Rushing & Jim Dumoulin -------------------------------------------------------- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.2 (smr) fixed problem with determining NNTP vs port number (jd/smr) fixed problem with Gensock not returning error strings (jd/finken) fixed problem with estimated num of articles getting zeroed. (jd) fixed conflicts with Accelerator Keys (jd) fixed up strict function specs in WVUTIL.C and WINVN.C (jcooper) decoder now understands WinCode, TIN, EnUU, POST etc (jcooper) Attachment now allows disabling of MIME (jcooper) New attachment dialog (jcooper) Customizable experimental MIME types (jcooper) Menus in group/article windows are disabled when retrieving (jcooper) fixed coding window minimize problem fixed finally (jcooper) fixed close-window bugs and cleaned up (jcooper) fixed util/encode bug (cnolan/smr) fixed Auto-Execute for Win32 (smr) better handling of nntp server disconnect (smr) ensure QUIT command is sent to server on exit/disconnect --------------------------------------------------------- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.1 (smr) simpler and more reliable winsock support (smr) fixes to support Microsoft Chicago Beta (smr) more robust SMTP send code (smr) removed debuging code for SMTP 250 messages (smr) better handling of long header lines with word wrap (gardnerd) copy to clipboard from article windows (cnolan) fixes for win32, bugfixes (jcooper) auto-execute of decoded files (via file manager/associate) (pearse) show only articles newer than last read (jd) fixed additional printing problems with some drivers (jd) made version info box a scrollable dialog (jd) fixed startup errors for people that have no printers (jd) fixed crashes upon new connects to servers >3000 new groups (jd) made nntpserver and mail address scrollable for long names (jd) fixed improper casting for more reliable operations (jd) standardized border on all WinVN dialog boxes (jd) fixed bug with truncating long mail addresses (jd) fixed improper cleanup on canceling Threshold dialog (jd) changed look and feel of article Threshold dialog box ------------------------------------------------------------ Improvements and new features in Version 0.91.6 (JD) Printing bug introduced in V0.91.5 is fixed (JD) New Printing Dialog Box with support for printing individual pages, multiple copies, and changing default printer. (JD) Added a Printer Setup Entry in Article Window (JD) Gensock include code fixed in WinVN.RC so the App Studio can now be brought up for developers without errors. Also, identifiers are now in sorted order in WinVN.h. (JD) Added an option in the Article View Menu for Find Next Unseen (JD) Added the beginnings of a "POWER" button. You can now press SPACE while reading an article and it will scroll down the page. If at the end of the page, it will fetch the next unread article in the selected group. In a future release, it will also be made to switch to the next unread article in the next subscribed group. The F2 key can also be used. (JD) Fixed Save on Exit to read the Confirm Save on Exit flag. (JD) Changed Menu text of the Quit command to Quit without Saving. (SMR) Bug in Mail forwarding is fixed Horizontal Scrolling is now by pixels instead of Chars