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Subj:	FNEWS 1.6 and FNEWS mailing list.

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Subject: FNEWS 1.6 and FNEWS mailing list.
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From: chrisp@grv.grace.cri.nz
Date: Thu, 13 May 93 03:20:29 GMT
Organization: Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand.
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Hi All,
	I have sent this message for two reasons, 

		1) To announce the FNEWS mailing list
		2) To release FNEWS 1.6 

	For those of you who don't already know, FNEWS is a VMS news
	reader which is fast and nice to use.  

	It gains its speed by reading and caching the indexes at night.
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1) There is now a mailing list for FNEWS.

This list will allow sysadmins to swap any useful information and also 
provide a forum for discussing future developments, and (in the unlikely
event that bugs are found :-) to make it easier to track down the cause of
the problem.

Also new versions and updates will be announced on this list.

To subscribe to the mailing list send a message to:
	fnews-request@grv.grace.cri.nz
Containing one line:
	subscribe

To mail a message to all the users who have subscribed to this list 
just send to:
	FNEWS@grv.grace.cri.nz
	
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2) New version of FNEWS.

Available from:
	zephyr.grace.cri.nz (131.203.1.5)  pub/fnews/vms

FNEWS 1.6
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+ Bug fixed so that it will work with ANU-News better.
+ tcp_ucx.c included in normal part of distribution
+ Max groups increased to 8000  (Yes some people have this many)
+ Online help improved, thanks to Douglas Miller, Deakin University.
+ There is now a mailing list for FNEWS.

FNEWS 1.5e
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+Bug fixed with loading more than about 2000 groups which caused a 
 stack dump (somtimes).  There is now an error in the log file and 
 you define FNEWS_INDEX_SIZE in fnews_local.com to fix the problem


FNEWS 1.5d
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+Mail messages now sent using callable mail, instead of spawn.
	(thanks to Kevin Oberman)
+Minor changes to follow up messages.
+Sorting changed from 'reference' order to 'subject' order, although
 less correct, this works, and is much faster.  The problem with
 'reference' sorting is that much news posting software doesn't supply
 the 'reference' information correctly, so the items are not displayed
 in a logical order.  At least subject sorting always works, and does
 what the 'user' expects.
 The cpu use was halved by using this sorting method.
+Posting to moderated groups fixed, this is now dealt with by the 
 news-server, which is better at guessing where/who to email the item to.
+Extract/index added.

FNEWS 1.5c
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Bug with empty news groups fixed 
make.com added to distribution.
Bug with display on screens > 24 lines fixed.


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				Thanks for your time,  Chris.

				Chrisp@grace.cri.nz


				Chris,  Email: chrisp@grace.cri.nz

				Industrial Research Ltd., New Zealand.