freebsd-ports/news/slnr/files/porting.notes
Satoshi Asami 6a4ede6935 A simple off-line newsreader.
Submitted by:	Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
1996-11-01 08:08:55 +00:00

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This is a (hopefully complete, but possibly missing one or two small
things) list of all the changes made by the FreeBSD port. All of
these changes were either to make the package fit in better with the
UNIX paradigm (the author states that the only reason slnr compiles
on UNIX at all is to allow testing of getnews so many of the things
slnr did/does are orientated towards a DOS environment), to fix typical
porting problems, or to add some small functionality so that I would
be able to use slnr for my purposes.
Changed to look for ~/.slnrrc instead of slnr.ini (in the current
directory) if compiled with -DUNIX.
Allows C-r to cause a screen refresh in the main menu.
Uses some more temporary filenames.
Changed default editor and pager to suit FreeBSD.
Changed to look for ~/.signature instead of sig.txt (in the current
directory) if compiled with -DUNIX.
Some stuff to allow all configureable options to be set via a
compile-time default, the .slnrrc file, and the environment.
Now ignores wether the TERM environment variable is set to `ansi' or not
and depends solely upon the environment variable `ANSI' existing or not,
`ANSI=y' in your ~/.slnrrc, and the compile-time default, in that order.
Various porting snaffoos.
Fixed a bug where articles of type `b', `B', or anything else that had the
article length denoted only by a byte-offset, would be incorrectly
parsed (couldn't find the end of the article). NOTE that the result is
NOT entirely 8-bit clean as it is supposed to be, but it is better at
least it works, now.
Added option "Reply to all recipients" to keep the cc: line in the
message.
Added repfile option. NOTE repfile is relevant to the current directory.
Fixed bug that would sometimes cause the REPLIES file to be appended to
instead of overwritten if one had only email replies.