%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ tin-&tin-version;.tar tin TIN TIN is a threaded NNTP and spool based console-mode UseNet newsreader. It supports threading, scoring, different charsets, and many other useful things. It has also support for different languages. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &tin-md5sum; Download size: &tin-size; Estimated disk space required: &tin-buildsize; Estimated build time: &tin-time; TIN Dependencies Optional , , an that provides the sendmail command or , , a spell checker ( or ), INN, UUDeview, Socks, Metamail, and Dmalloc or dbmalloc User Notes: Install TIN by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-screen=ncursesw \ --enable-nntp-only --disable-printing && make build This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make install && make install_sysdefs && rm -vf doc/*.? && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/tin-&tin-version; && install -v -m644 doc/* /usr/share/doc/tin-&tin-version; --with-screen=ncursesw: This switch forces the use of wide-character functions from the ncursesw library (for UTF-8 and Asian languages support). --enable-nntp-only: Reading news from a local spool is disabled with this switch. Don't use this if you have installed INN and want to use its spool. --disable-printing: This switch disables printing since TIN cannot send non-ASCII text to the printer correctly. Remove this switch if you can tolerate this limitation. --with-editor: This switch sets the default editor used by TIN. The default is vi. /etc/tin/tinrc, ~/.tin/tinrc, ~/.newsrc, /etc/tin/tin.defaults, /etc/tin/mime.types, /etc/tin/keymap and /etc/mailcap /etc/tin/tinrc ~/.tin/tinrc ~/.newsrc /etc/tin/tin.defaults /etc/tin/keymap /etc/mailcap Set some global defaults for TIN by running the following commands as the root user: cat > /etc/tin/tinrc << "EOF" use_mouse=ON getart_limit=100 translit=ON EOF Now, as an unprivileged user, subscribe to some newsgroups, specify the news server, and run tin: cat >> ~/.newsrc << "EOF" gmane.linux.lfs.devel: gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel: EOF export NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org tin -Q For printing, TIN executes the lpr command. This is provided by or . If you do not have the metamail program, TIN will use an internal parser for multipart MIME articles. Alternatively, you can use Mutt for MIME parsing through the metamutt shell script. This requires both the and programs. To use metamutt, set metamail_prog=metamutt in tin. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directory tin, rtin, tinews.pl, metamutt, opt-case.pl, w2r.pl, and url_handler.sh None /etc/tin Short Descriptions tin is a UseNet news reader. tin rtin is a symbolic link to tin. rtin tinews.pl posts and signs an article via NNTP. tinews.pl metamutt is a replacement of metamail using Mutt. metamutt opt-case.pl optimizes case insensitive regexp filters for tin. opt-case.pl w2r.pl converts tin wildmat filters to tin regexp filters. w2r.pl url_handler.sh calls a web browser for viewing hyperlinks. url_handler.sh