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From: surak@next.com (Jayson Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXTstep news reader available
Keywords: nextstep newsgrazer news reader
Message-ID: <580@rosie.NeXT.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:46:10 GMT
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Reply-To: Jayson_Adams@next.com (Jayson Adams)
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Hola,

I've placed NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep news reader app, out on the archives.  At  
the moment it's available from sonata.cc.purdue.edu (download  
/pub/next/submissions/NewsGrazer.52.1.tar.Z).  It's also in the /pub/\temp  
folder at umd5.umd.edu.  Here's a brief description:

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NewsGrazer gives the news reading and manipulation process a graphical  
interface.  You can select groups by clicking on them, which displays a list of  
the group's articles (optionally sorted by title and time).  You can read an  
article by clicking on it;  articles can be exported to other apps via Services  
(if they accept files).  NewsGrazer allows users to post messages and to reply  
to posters by mail.  NewsFolders (similar to Mailboxes) allow easy storage and  
retrieval of news articles.  Filters have similar functionality to rn kill  
files.

NewsGrazer requires NeXTstep 2.0 and supports both mounted and nntp news  
sources.  NewsGrazer does not configure a system to retrieve news from a news  
feed or to run nntp.
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Please let me know about any bugs you run across.  You can also ask me for  
features, but don't expect them any time soon.  If you have questions about how  
something works, or it looks like a feature is missing, please be sure you've  
checked the on-line documentation and Preferences panel before you send me  
mail.  Thanks in advance.  The following two paragraphs should also help answer  
a couple questions most people will have:

When NewsGrazer starts, it displays a browser of the available news groups.  If  
you switch to List mode, you'll just get a list all of your subscribed groups  
(unless you explicitly ask for all groups).  You can set the default mode  
(Browser or List) in NewsGrazer Preferences.

When replying by mail, NewsGrazer will open a new Mail Send window and attempt  
to place the article, etc. into that window.  If you have another Send window  
on-screen, this info will get blasted into that send window (this is a Mail  
bug).

Enjoy!!!

__jayson
NeXT Computer, Inc.