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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[df7d5d36] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY tin-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/newsreaders/tin/v1.8/tin-&tin-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY tin-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.8/tin-&tin-version;.tar.bz2">
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[8a246c7] | 9 | <!ENTITY tin-md5sum "e6ed45205020665c097556822b0d575b">
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[df7d5d36] | 10 | <!ENTITY tin-size "1.4 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY tin-buildsize "12.4 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY tin-time "0.4 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[fd680fb] | 15 | <sect1 id="tin" xreflabel="tin-&tin-version;">
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[df7d5d36] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="tin.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>TIN-&tin-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="tin">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-TIN">TIN</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to TIN</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para><application>TIN</application> is a threaded NNTP and spool based
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[59108487] | 33 | console-mode UseNet newsreader. It supports threading, scoring,
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[df7d5d36] | 34 | different charsets, and many other useful things. It has also support for
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| 35 | different languages.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 38 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 39 | <listitem>
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| 40 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tin-download-http;"/></para>
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| 41 | </listitem>
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| 42 | <listitem>
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| 43 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tin-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 44 | </listitem>
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| 45 | <listitem>
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| 46 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &tin-md5sum;</para>
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| 47 | </listitem>
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| 48 | <listitem>
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| 49 | <para>Download size: &tin-size;</para>
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| 50 | </listitem>
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| 51 | <listitem>
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| 52 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &tin-buildsize;</para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>Estimated build time: &tin-time;</para>
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| 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | </itemizedlist>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">TIN Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 62 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pcre"/>,
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| 63 | <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
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[7f5c97e] | 64 | an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> that provides the
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[18a11ff] | 65 | <command>sendmail</command> command or <xref linkend="mailx"/>,
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[df7d5d36] | 66 | <xref linkend="gnupg"/>,
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[b02921f] | 67 | <!-- a spell checker (<xref linkend="ispell"/> or <xref linkend="aspell"/>), -->
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| 68 | <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
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[df7d5d36] | 69 | <ulink url="http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/inn/">INN</ulink>,
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| 70 | <ulink url="http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/">UUDeview</ulink>,
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| 71 | <ulink url="http://www.inet.no/dante/">Socks</ulink>,
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| 72 | <ulink
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[1e642794] | 73 | url="http://ftp4.de.freesbie.org/pub/misc/metamail/mm2.7.tar.Z">Metamail</ulink>,
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[df7d5d36] | 74 | and
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| 75 | <ulink url="http://dmalloc.com/">Dmalloc</ulink>
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| 76 | or
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| 77 | <ulink url="ftp://invisible-island.net/dbmalloc/">dbmalloc</ulink></para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 80 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Tin"/></para>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | </sect2>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 85 | <title>Installation of TIN</title>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <para>Install <application>TIN</application> by running the following
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| 88 | commands:</para>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-screen=ncursesw \
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| 91 | --enable-nntp-only --disable-printing &&
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| 92 | make build</userinput></screen>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 97 |
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[18a11ff] | 98 | <screen role='root'><userinput>make install &&
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| 99 | make install_sysdefs &&
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| 100 | rm -vf doc/*.? &&
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| 101 | install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/tin-&tin-version; &&
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| 102 | install -v -m644 doc/* /usr/share/doc/tin-&tin-version;</userinput></screen>
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[df7d5d36] | 103 |
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| 104 | </sect2>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 107 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <para><parameter>--with-screen=ncursesw</parameter>: This switch forces
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| 110 | the use of wide-character functions from the ncursesw library (for UTF-8
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| 111 | and Asian languages support).</para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <para><parameter>--enable-nntp-only</parameter>: Reading news from a local
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[59108487] | 114 | spool is disabled with this switch. Don't use this if you have installed
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| 115 | INN and want to use its spool.</para>
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[df7d5d36] | 116 |
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| 117 | <para><parameter>--disable-printing</parameter>: This switch disables
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[59108487] | 118 | printing since <application>TIN</application> cannot send non-ASCII text
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| 119 | to the printer correctly. Remove this switch if you can tolerate this
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[df7d5d36] | 120 | limitation.</para>
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| 121 |
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[9e979a9] | 122 | <para><parameter>--with-editor</parameter>: This switch sets the default
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[6788877] | 123 | editor used by <application>TIN</application>. The default is
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| 124 | <command>vi</command>.</para>
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| 125 |
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[df7d5d36] | 126 | </sect2>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 129 | <title>Configuring TIN</title>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | <sect3 id="tin-config">
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| 132 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <para><filename>/etc/tin/tinrc</filename>,
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[18a11ff] | 135 | <filename>~/.tin/tinrc</filename>,
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| 136 | <filename>~/.newsrc</filename>,
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| 137 | <filename>/etc/tin/tin.defaults</filename>,
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| 138 | <filename>/etc/tin/mime.types</filename>,
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| 139 | <filename>/etc/tin/keymap</filename> and
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| 140 | <filename>/etc/mailcap</filename></para>
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[df7d5d36] | 141 |
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| 142 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 143 | <primary sortas="e-etc-tinrc">/etc/tin/tinrc</primary>
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| 144 | </indexterm>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 147 | <primary sortas="e-AA.tinrc">~/.tin/tinrc</primary>
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| 148 | </indexterm>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 151 | <primary sortas="e-AA.newsrc">~/.newsrc</primary>
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| 152 | </indexterm>
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| 153 |
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[18a11ff] | 154 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 155 | <primary sortas="e-etc-tindefaults">/etc/tin/tin.defaults</primary>
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| 156 | </indexterm>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 159 | <primary sortas="e-etc-tinkeymap">/etc/tin/keymap</primary>
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| 160 | </indexterm>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-config">
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| 163 | <primary sortas="e-etc-mailcap">/etc/mailcap</primary>
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| 164 | </indexterm>
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| 165 |
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[df7d5d36] | 166 | </sect3>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <sect3>
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| 169 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 170 |
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| 171 | <para>Set some global defaults for <application>TIN</application> by
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| 172 | running the following commands as the
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| 173 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 174 |
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[18a11ff] | 175 | <screen role='root'><userinput>cat > /etc/tin/tinrc << "EOF"
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[df7d5d36] | 176 | use_mouse=ON
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| 177 | getart_limit=100
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| 178 | translit=ON
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| 179 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 180 |
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[59108487] | 181 | <para>Now, as an unprivileged user, subscribe to some newsgroups,
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| 182 | specify the news server, and run <command>tin</command>:</para>
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[df7d5d36] | 183 |
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| 184 | <screen><userinput>cat >> ~/.newsrc << "EOF"
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| 185 | gmane.linux.lfs.devel:
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| 186 | gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel:
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| 187 | EOF
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| 188 | export NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org
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| 189 | tin -Q</userinput></screen>
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| 190 |
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[18a11ff] | 191 | <para>For printing, <application>TIN</application> executes the
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[1e642794] | 192 | <command>lpr</command> command. This can be provided by
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[18a11ff] | 193 | <xref linkend="cups"/> or <xref linkend="LPRng"/>.</para>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <para>If you do not have the <command>metamail</command> program,
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| 196 | <application>TIN</application> will use an internal parser for multipart
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| 197 | MIME articles. Alternatively, you can use <application>Mutt</application>
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| 198 | for MIME parsing through the <command>metamutt</command> shell script.
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| 199 | This requires both the <xref linkend="mutt"/> and
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| 200 | <xref linkend="procmail"/> programs. To use <command>metamutt</command>,
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| 201 | set <option>metamail_prog=metamutt</option> in
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| 202 | <command>tin</command>.</para>
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| 203 |
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[df7d5d36] | 204 | </sect3>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | </sect2>
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| 207 |
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| 208 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 209 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <segmentedlist>
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| 212 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 213 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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[59108487] | 214 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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[df7d5d36] | 215 |
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| 216 | <seglistitem>
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| 217 | <seg>tin, rtin, tinews.pl, metamutt, opt-case.pl, w2r.pl,
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| 218 | and url_handler.sh</seg>
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| 219 | <seg>None</seg>
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| 220 | <seg>/etc/tin</seg>
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| 221 | </seglistitem>
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| 222 | </segmentedlist>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <variablelist>
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| 225 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 226 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 227 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <varlistentry id="tin-prog">
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| 230 | <term><command>tin</command></term>
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| 231 | <listitem>
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| 232 | <para>is a UseNet news reader.</para>
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| 233 | <indexterm zone="tin tin-prog">
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| 234 | <primary sortas="b-tin">tin</primary>
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| 235 | </indexterm>
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| 236 | </listitem>
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| 237 | </varlistentry>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | <varlistentry id="rtin">
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| 240 | <term><command>rtin</command></term>
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| 241 | <listitem>
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| 242 | <para>is a symbolic link to <command>tin</command>.</para>
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| 243 | <indexterm zone="tin rtin">
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| 244 | <primary sortas="b-rtin">rtin</primary>
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| 245 | </indexterm>
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| 246 | </listitem>
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| 247 | </varlistentry>
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| 248 |
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| 249 | <varlistentry id="tinews.pl">
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| 250 | <term><command>tinews.pl</command></term>
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| 251 | <listitem>
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| 252 | <para>posts and signs an article via NNTP.</para>
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| 253 | <indexterm zone="tin tinews.pl">
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| 254 | <primary sortas="b-tinews.pl">tinews.pl</primary>
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| 255 | </indexterm>
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| 256 | </listitem>
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| 257 | </varlistentry>
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| 258 |
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| 259 | <varlistentry id="metamutt">
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| 260 | <term><command>metamutt</command></term>
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| 261 | <listitem>
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| 262 | <para>is a replacement of <command>metamail</command> using
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| 263 | <application>Mutt</application>.</para>
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| 264 | <indexterm zone="tin metamutt">
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| 265 | <primary sortas="b-metamutt">metamutt</primary>
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| 266 | </indexterm>
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| 267 | </listitem>
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| 268 | </varlistentry>
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| 269 |
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| 270 | <varlistentry id="opt-case.pl">
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| 271 | <term><command>opt-case.pl</command></term>
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| 272 | <listitem>
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| 273 | <para>optimizes case insensitive regexp filters for tin.</para>
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| 274 | <indexterm zone="tin opt-case.pl">
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| 275 | <primary sortas="b-opt-case.pl">opt-case.pl</primary>
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| 276 | </indexterm>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 | </varlistentry>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <varlistentry id="w2r.pl">
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| 281 | <term><command>w2r.pl</command></term>
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| 282 | <listitem>
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| 283 | <para>converts tin wildmat filters to tin regexp filters.</para>
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| 284 | <indexterm zone="tin w2r.pl">
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| 285 | <primary sortas="b-w2r.pl">w2r.pl</primary>
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| 286 | </indexterm>
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| 287 | </listitem>
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| 288 | </varlistentry>
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| 289 |
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| 290 | <varlistentry id="url_handler.sh">
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| 291 | <term><command>url_handler.sh</command></term>
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| 292 | <listitem>
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| 293 | <para>calls a web browser for viewing hyperlinks.</para>
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| 294 | <indexterm zone="tin url_handler.sh">
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| 295 | <primary sortas="b-url_handler.sh">url_handler.sh</primary>
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| 296 | </indexterm>
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| 297 | </listitem>
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| 298 | </varlistentry>
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| 299 |
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| 300 | </variablelist>
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| 301 |
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| 302 | </sect2>
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| 303 |
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| 304 | </sect1>
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