tin(1) A Usenet newsreader tin(1)NAME
tin, rtin - A Usenet newsreader
SYNOPSIStin [[-h|-H|-V] | [[[-a] [-dlnq|-Q] [-ArzX]] [[-R|-S] -s News-dir]
[-cuvZ] [-N|-M address] [-o|-w]] [-D debug-level] [-G article-limit]
[-f newsrc-file] [-g server] [-m Mail-dir] [-p port] [-I index-
dir] [newsgroup[,...]]]
rtin [[-h|-H|-V] | [[[-a] [-dlnq|-Q] [-AzX]] [-cvZ] [[-S] -s News-dir]
[-N|-M address] [-o|-w]] [-D debug-level] [-G article-limit] [-f
newsrc-file] [-g server] [-m Mail-dir] [-p port] [newsgroup[,...]]]
DESCRIPTIONtin is a full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader. It can read news
locally (i.e., /var/spool/news) or remotely (rtin or tin-r option) via
a NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server. It will automatically
utilize NOV (News OVerview) style index files if available locally or
via the NNTP XOVER command.
tin has four separate levels of operation: Group selection level, Group
level, Thread level and Article level. Use the `h' (help) command to
view a list of the commands available at a particular level.
On startup tin will show a list of the newsgroups found in
$HOME/.newsrc. An arrow '->' or highlighted bar will point to the first
newsgroup. Move to a group by using the terminal arrow keys (terminal
dependent) or `j' and `k'. Use PgUp/PgDn (terminal dependent) or Ctrl-U
and Ctrl-D to page up/down. Enter a newsgroup by pressing <RETURN>.
The <TAB> key enters the next newsgroup with unread articles.
OPTIONS-a Toggle ANSI color (default is off).
-A Force authentication on initial connect.
-c Create/update index files for every group in $HOME/.newsrc
or file specified by the ``-f'' option and mark all arti‐
cles as read.
-d Don't load newsgroup descriptions (interactive mode).
-D debug-level
Enter debug-level (1 = NNTP, 2 = all).
-f file Use the specified file of subscribed to newsgroups in place
of $HOME/.newsrc.
-g server Use the server and newsrc specified in $HOME/.tin/news‐
rctable.
-G article-limit
Limit the number of articles/group to retrieve from the
server.
-h Help listing all command line options.
-H Brief introduction to tin that is also shown the first time
it is started.
-I dir Directory in which to store newsgroup index files. Default
is $HOME/.tin/.news. This option is disabled if tin is com‐
piled as reading news via NNTP only.
-l Get number of articles per group from the active file -
this might result in incorrect article counts but is usu‐
ally faster than the default which is to read the active
file and then check the article count via a GROUP command
``-ln''.
-m dir Mailbox directory to use. Default is $HOME/Mail.
-M user Mail unread articles to specified user for later reading.
For more information read section AUTOMATIC MAILING AND
SAVING NEW NEWS.
-n Only load groups from the active file that are subscribed
to in the user's $HOME/.newsrc. This allows a noticeable
speedup when connecting via a slow line, but tin cannot
tell which groups are moderated.
-N Mail unread articles to yourself for later reading. For
more information read section AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING
NEW NEWS.
-o Quick post all postponed articles and exit.
-p port Port to use if reading via NNTP (default is 119). This also
overrides the environment variable $NNTPPORT if set.
-q Don't check for new newsgroups.
-Q Quick start. Start tin as quickly as possible. Currently
this is equivalent to ``-nqd''.
-r Read news remotely from the default NNTP server specified
in the environment variable $NNTPSERVER or contained in the
file /etc/nntpserver.
-R Read news saved by the ``-S'' option.
-s dir Save/read articles to/in directory. Default is $HOME/News.
-S Save unread articles for later reading by the ``-R''
option. For more information read section AUTOMATIC MAILING
AND SAVING NEW NEWS.
-u Create/update index files for every group in $HOME/.newsrc
or file specified by the ``-f'' option. This option is dis‐
abled if tin retrieves its index files via a NNTP server.
-v Verbose mode for ``-c'', ``-M'', ``-S'', ``-u'' and ``-Z''
options.
-V Print version and date information.
-w Quick mode to post an article and then exit. In order for
this to be quick, tin is started in the same way as with
``-n'' and so only those groups in the newsrc are available
for posting.
-X No-overwrite mode. $HOME/.newsrc and files in $HOME/.tin
will not be overwritten but may be created if they don't
exist.
-z Only start tin if there is any new/unread news. If there is
news tin will position cursor at first group with unread
news. Useful for putting in login file.
-Z Check if there is any new/unread news and exit with appro‐
priate status. If ``-v'' option is specified the number of
unread articles in each group is printed. An exit code 0
indicates no news, 1 that an error occurred and 2 that
new/unread news exists. Useful for writing scripts.
tin can also dynamically change its options by the `M' menu command.
Any changes are written to $HOME/.tin/tinrc. For more information see
section GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES.
A list of groups can be specified after the other command line options.
This can be useful if you wish to yank in or subscribe to a hand-picked
subset of the active newsgroups. See the section NEWSGROUP LISTS &
WILDCARDS for the types of pattern that tin understands.
If you specify a single group-name, or a wildcard that matches a single
group, then you will automatically enter that group. Otherwise the nor‐
mal group selection screen will appear, but with all the matching
groups present too, as though you had yanked just those groups in.
Once you use `y' to yank in all active groups, or `r' to toggle the
read/unread status, then the command line groups will be gone. You can
use `Y' to reread the active file and get them back.
NB: With the ``-n'' flag, only unsubscribed groups in the $HOME/.newsrc
file (or the newsrc-file given by the ``-f'' command-line switch or via
$HOME/.tin/newsrctable) can be matched.
NEWS ADMINISTRATION
Maintaining Netnews on large networks of machines can be a pretty time
consuming job as I discovered when I was given the job of maintaining
our news system and news users.
A user starting tin for the first time can be automatically subscribed
to a list of newsgroups that are deemed appropriate by the news admin‐
istrator. The subscriptions file should be created in your news lib
directory (i.e., $NEWSLIBDIR/subscriptions) and should have file per‐
missions set to 0644. If you read news via NNTP, then your news server
must support the LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS command. It is part of the Common
NNTP Extensions and all modern servers should understand it.
SCREEN FORMATtin has four separate levels of operation: Selection level, Group
level, Thread level and Article level.
At the Group Selection level the title displays (the name of the
newsserver and) the number of subscribed groups (containing new unread
articles). The newsgroups are displayed in the middle of the screen
with the number of unread articles displayed on the same line in front.
->M 1 2 comp.security.announce Announcements from the CERT abou
M 2 1 news.admin.announce Announcements for news adminstra
3 22 news.software.misc News-related software other than
4 1475 news.software.nntp The Network News Transfer Protoc
X 5 124 news.software.readers Discussion of software used to r
There may also be a character prefixing the line. An explanation fol‐
lows:
u This group is unsubscribed. To see only your subscribed
groups use the `r' or `y' toggle keys.
M This is a moderated group. Any posts you make will have to be
approved by the group administrator before it will be made
public. tin will ask for confirmation before you post to a
moderated group.
N This is a new newsgroup which has been created since you last
used tin. New newsgroups are not subscribed to by default
(However, see the $AUTOSUBSCRIBE / $AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE environ‐
ment variables). Subscribe to it in the normal way if you
wish the group to continue to appear in your Selection Menu.
Simply ignore new newsgroups and they will be gone the next
time you start tin. You will have to yank in all the groups
to find them in a later session.
D This group no longer exists. If you no longer wish to see
this group then unsubscribe from it in the normal way. This
flag will only appear if you have set 'strip_bogus' to "ask"
in the Options Menu.
X You may no longer make posts to this group. Often a group
will be superseded by a more appropriately named one.
= This group has been renamed and you may no longer post to it.
If you do, then you will receive an error from your
newsserver telling you the correct group to post to.
At the Group level the title contains the name of the group, the number
of conversation threads, the threading-method, the total number of
articles, the number of killed articles and the number of hot articles.
i.e., alt.sources (5T(B) 23A 0K 0H). It might also contain an R if
your are in 'show_only_unread' mode and an M if the group is moderated.
(The later does not work with the ``-n'' command-line switch!). If a
thread has unread articles in it it's marked with a `+' in font of the
total number of articles in the thread. If a thread has hot articles
in it (see also section FILTERING ARTICLES) it's marked with a `*' in
font of the total number of articles in the thread. There might also
be shown the number of lines of the first (unread) article in the
thread right before the subject - this is controlled by the
'show_lines' option.
de.admin.net-abuse.announce (11T(B) 13A 0K 0HM)
-> 1 + 3 108 bincancels in de.talk.sex Christopher Lueg <l
2 + 69 EMP/ECP gecancelt. xynx. BI= 10 Henning Weede <hwee
3 + 93 EMP gecancelt. SouthBeach/Palms Henning Weede <hwee
4 * 368 <1997-11-12> Fremdcancel-FAQ Thomas Roessler <ro
At the Thread level the screen usually (depends on the threading method
used) looks like this:
-> 0 [ 7] What is this funny tree in the thr Robert F. Simmig
1 [ 12] +-> Sephan Wagner <s
2 [ 230] | `->Tin thread-level (was: What is Bob Johnson <bob
3 [ 22] `->tin threading menu Brian Richardson
At the Article level the page header has the following format:
Sun, 28 Dec 1997 21:21:01 de.admin.news.groups Thread 20 of 86
Lines 50 Re: EINSPRUCH zu RESULT:de.comm.mobil.ALL RespNo 47 of 59
Urs Janssen <urs@akk.org> at Arbeitskreis Kultur und Kommunikati
article-body
COMMON MOVING KEYS
This table shows the common keys used for moving around all levels
within tin.
ANSI/vt100 Other Terminals
Beg. of list/article Home ^ (1)
End of list/article End $ (2)
Page Up PgUp ^U or ^B or b
Page Down PgDn ^D or ^F or <SPACE> (3)
Line Up Up arrow k or ^P
Line Down Down arrow j or ^N
(1) also g in the article, config and help menus
(2) also G in the article, config and help menus
(3) When viewing the last page of an article, PgDn and SPACE will
optionally move to the next article. See the tinrc variables
pgdn_goto_next and space_goto_next_unread for more information.
COMMON EDITING COMMANDS
An emacs style editing package allows the easy editing of input
strings. An history list allows the easy reuse of previously entered
strings. In addition to the cursor keys, the following commands are
available when editing a string:
^A, ^E move to beginning or end of line, respectively.
^F, ^B non-destructive move forward or back one location, respec‐
tively.
^D delete the character currently under the cursor, or send EOF
if no characters in the buffer.
^H, <DEL> delete character left of the cursor.
^K delete from cursor to end of line.
^P, ^N move through history, previous and next, respectively.
^L, ^R redraw the current line.
<CR> places line on history list if non-blank, appends newline and
returns to the caller.
<ESC> aborts the present editing operation.
GLOBAL COMMANDS
The following commands are available at all 4 menu levels and always
have the same effect.
! Shell escape. ! by itself will launch a shell, ! <command>
will run an external <command> This facility may have been
disabled by the System Administrator
& Toggle use of ANSI color.
^L Redraw the current screen.
^O Reload postponed article. If your system blocks CTRL-O you
must quote it by pressing CTRL-V first. The postpone-menu
offers the following actions: `y' = reload and spawn editor;
`Y' = post article (without spawning editor); `A' = post all
postponed articles (without spawning editor); `n' = skip this
article; `q' = quit postponed menu. Currently there is no
'simple' way to delete a postponed article from the post‐
poned-file, you have to use the following command sequence
instead: reload it with '^O', enter editor with 'y', quit
editor, discard posting with 'q'. See also ``-o'' command-
line switch.
O Reload postponed article. See also ``-o'' command-line
switch.
W List articles posted by user. The date posted, the newsgroup
and the subject are listed.
v Print tin version information.
NEWSGROUP SELECTION COMMANDS
4 Select group 4.
^R Reset $HOME/.newsrc file. This will destroy all records of
which articles have been read, so use this carefully.
# Choose a range of articles to be affected by the next com‐
mand. See the section RANGES for more information.
/ Search for a group by name and description (if displayed).
? Backward search through the group names and descriptions.
<CR> Read current group.
<TAB> Enter next group with unread news. Will wrap around to the
beginning of the group selection list looking for unread
groups.
c Make current group as all read [after confirmation] and move
to the next group in the group selection list.
C Mark current group as all read [after confirmation] and enter
the next unread group in the group selection list.
d Toggle display to show just the group name or the group name
and the group descriptions.
g Choose a new group by name. This command can be used to
access any group, even those not currently yanked in.
h Help screen of newsgroup selection commands. You can use /
and ? to search on this screen.
H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom of the
screen.
i Toggle the display of the description of the current news‐
group in the last line. This will not be available if tin was
started with the -d option.
I Toggle inverse video.
m Move the current group within the group selection list. By
entering `1' the group will become the first displayed group
in the list, by entering `8' the eighth group in the list
etc. By entering `$' the group will be the last group dis‐
played.
M User configurable options menu (for more information see sec‐
tion GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES).
n Enter next group with unread news. This key is identical to
<TAB>
N Positions the cursor on the next group with unread articles
in it.
q Quit tin - ask the user to confirm if 'confirm_to_quit' is
on.
Q Quit tin - don't ask the user to confirm.
r Toggle display of all subscribed to groups and just those
groups containing unread articles. Command has no effect if
groups were specified on the command line when tin was
started.
R Mail a bug report or comment to <tin-bugs@tin.org>. This is
the best way of getting bugs fixed and features
added/changed.
s Subscribe to current group.
S Subscribe to groups matching user specified pattern. See the
section NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS for the types of pattern
that tin understands.
u Unsubscribe to current group. This can be used to remove
bogus groups. See 'strip_bogus' in the GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU
AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES section.
U Unsubscribe to groups matching user specified pattern. See
the section NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS for the types of pat‐
tern that tin understands.
w Post an article to current group. If posting fails for some
reason, you'll get the chance to edit (`e') the article
again, postpone (`o') it for later processing (see also
``-o''command-line switch) or discard (`q') it.
X Quit tin without saving any changes to the configuration.
y Yanks in all groups. Toggles the displayed groups between
all the groups in the $NEWSLIBDIR/active file and just those
that are subscribed to in $HOME/.newsrc.
Y Reread the active file to see if any new news has arrived
since starting tin.
z Mark all articles in the current group as unread.
Z Identical to z.
GROUP INDEX COMMANDS
4 Select article 4.
^A Auto select article(s) using a menu. Read the section FILTER‐
ING ARTICLES for more information.
^K Kill article(s) using a menu. Read the section FILTERING
ARTICLES for more information.
# Choose a range of articles to be affected by the next com‐
mand. See the section RANGES for more information.
- Re-enter the last message that was viewed.
/ Search forward for specified subject.
? Search backward for specified subject.
* Select current thread for later processing.
+ Perform auto-selection on current group.
. Toggle selection of current thread. If at least one unread
article, (but not every unread article) in the current thread
is selected, then all unread articles become selected.
; For each thread in current group, if it at least one unread
article is selected, all unread articles become selected.
This is useful for auto-selection on author where reader
wants to see entire thread.
= Prompts for a pattern with which to match on. All threads
whose subjects match the pattern will be marked selected. A
pattern of ``*'' will match all subjects. Entering just <CR>
will re-use the last pattern that was entered.
@ Reverse all selections on all articles.
~ Undo all selections on all articles. It clears the toggle
effect of `X' command. Thus after first doing a `X', one can
then do `~' to reset articles. Thus, one can iteratively
whittle down uninteresting threads.
| Pipe current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles into command.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
[ Auto select article(s) with a single key [after confirma‐
tion]. The defaults used for selection are based upon the
following four tinrc config variables:
default_filter_select_case
default_filter_select_expire
default_filter_select_global
default_filter_select_header
Read the section GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE
VARIABLES for a full explanation of these variables and FIL‐
TERING ARTICLES for more information on filtering.
] Kill article(s) with a single key [after confirmation]. The
defaults used for killing are based upon the following four
tinrc config variables:
default_filter_kill_case
default_filter_kill_expire
default_filter_kill_global
default_filter_kill_header
Read the section GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE
VARIABLES for a full explanation of these variables and FIL‐
TERING ARTICLES for more information on filtering.
<CR> Read current article.
<TAB> View next unread article or group.
a Author forward search. This searches for articles with a
specific From: line.
A Author backward search. Otherwise, see 'a' above.
B Search the body of all articles in group (can be slow). You
can abort the search using 'q'.
c Mark all articles as read [after confirmation] then return to
the group selection list. Move cursor to next group.
C Mark all articles as read [after confirmation] and enter the
next group with unread news.
d Cycle the display of the author through all the possible
options for the tinrc variable 'show_author'.
E Edit the filter file and reload it afterwards.
g Choose a new group by name. This command can be used to
access any group, even those not currently yanked in.
G Toggle article/group limit.
h Help screen of group index commands. You can use / and ? to
search on this screen.
H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom of the
screen.
i Display the subject of the first article in the current
thread in the last line.
I Toggle inverse video.
K Mark article/thread as read and move onto the next unread
article/thread.
l Open the thread under the current cursor position.
L Look up article by ``Message:-ID:''.
m Mail current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles to someone.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
M User configurable options menu (for more information see sec‐
tion GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES).
n Go to next group.
N Go to next unread article.
o Send current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles to printer.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
p Go to previous group.
P Go to previous unread article.
q Return to previous level.
Q Quit tin - don't ask the user to confirm.
r Toggle the display between all articles and unread articles
R Mail a bug report or comment to <tin-bugs@tin.org>. This is
the best way of getting bugs fixed and features
added/changed.
s Save current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles. See the sec‐
tion MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES
for more information.
S Save tagged articles automatically without further prompting.
t Toggle tag-status of current article / thread for mailing
(`m') / piping (`|') / printing (`o') / saving (`s') /
reposting (`x').
T Automatically tag in order all the parts of the current
multi-part message
u Cycle the threading mode through no threading, threading by
subject, threading by references, threading on both subject
and references.
U Untag all articles that were tagged.
w Post an article to current group. If posting fails for some
reason, you'll get the chance to edit (`e') the article
again, postpone (`o') it for later processing (see also
``-o''command-line switch) or discard (`q') it.
x Repost an already posted article / thread / auto-selected
(hot) articles / articles matching pattern / tagged articles
to another newsgroup(s). Useful for reposting from global to
local newsgroups. Do not use this to cross-post your own
articles.
X Mark all unread articles that have not been selected as read,
redraw screen to reflect changes and put index at the first
thread to begin reading. Pressing `X' again will toggle back
to the way it was before. See `~' command for clearing the
toggle effect.
z Mark current article as unread.
Z Mark current thread as unread.
THREAD LISTING COMMANDS
4 Select article 4 within thread.
# Choose a range of articles to be affected by the next com‐
mand. See the section RANGES for more information.
- Re-enter the last message that was viewed.
/ Search forward for a specified subject.
? Search backwards for a specified subject.
* Select the current thread for later processing.
. Toggle selection of current article.
@ Reverse article selections.
~ Undo all selections on current thread.
| Pipe current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles into command.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
<CR> Read current article within thread.
<TAB> View next unread article within thread.
a Author forward search. This searches for articles with a
specific From: line. The search will wrap over into the next
thread if nothing is found in the current one.
A Author backward search. Otherwise, see 'a' above.
B Search the body of all articles in group (can be slow). You
can abort the search using 'q'.
c Mark thread as read [after confirmation] and return to the
group index page. Move cursor to next thread.
C Mark thread as read [after confirmation] and enter the next
thread containing unread news.
d Cycle the display of the author through all the possible
options for the tinrc variable 'show_author'.
h Help screen of thread listing commands. You can use / and ?
to search on this screen.
H Toggle the display of help mini menu at the bottom of the
screen.
i Display the subject of the current article in the last line.
I Toggle inverse video.
K Mark article as read and move onto the next unread article.
L Look up article by ``Message:-ID:''.
m Mail current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles to someone.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
q Return to previous level.
Q Quit tin - don't ask the user to confirm.
r Toggle display to show all articles or only unread articles.
R Mail a bug report or comment to <tin-bugs@tin.org>. This is
the best way of getting bugs fixed and features
added/changed.
s Save current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles. See the sec‐
tion MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES
for more information.
S Save tagged articles automatically without further prompting.
t Toggle tag status of current article for mailing (`m') / pip‐
ing (`|') / printing (`o') / saving (`s') / reposting (`x').
U Untag all tagged threads
w Post an article to current group. If posting fails for some
reason, you'll get the chance to edit (`e') the article
again, postpone (`o') it for later processing (see also
``-o''command-line switch) or discard (`q') it.
z Mark current article in thread as unread.
Z Mark all articles in thread as unread.
ARTICLE VIEWER COMMANDS
0 Read the first (base) article in this thread.
4 Read response 4 in this thread.
^A Auto select article(s) using a menu. Read the section FILTER‐
ING ARTICLES for more information.
^E Reply through mail to the author of the current article with
a copy of the article with all headers included.
^G Perform PGP operations on article.
^H Toggles the display mode (raw including all headers vs.
cooked)
^K Kill article(s) using a menu. Read the section FILTERING
ARTICLES for more information.
^T Toggle the TAB width between 4 and 8 characters.
^W Post a followup to the current article with a copy of the
article with all headers included.
" Toggle $TEX2ISO decoding for current article.
% Toggle ROT-13 decoding for this article.
( Toggle the display of uuencoded sections on/off. The default
behaviour is taken from the hide_uue variable in the tinrc
file.
) The formfeed character (^L) is often used to hide 'spoilers'
that the reader may not initially wish to see when viewing an
article. Any text after a formfeed is not displayed. This
keypress acts like a reveal key and turns the hidden text
back on. Scrolling the formfeed off the screen will also
reveal the text.
- Re-enter the last message that was viewed.
/ Forward search the text of this article.
? Backward search the text of this article.
: Skip to the end of the quoted text in this article.
< Goto the first article in the current thread.
> Goto the last article in the current thread.
_ Toggle word highlighting on/off.
| Pipe current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles into command.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
[ Auto select article(s) with a single key. The defaults used
for selection are set based upon the following four tinrc
config variables:
default_filter_select_case
default_filter_select_expire
default_filter_select_global
default_filter_select_header
Read the section GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE
VARIABLES for a full explanation of these variables and FIL‐
TERING ARTICLES for more information on filtering.
] Kill article(s) with a single key. The defaults used for
killing are based upon the following four tinrc config vari‐
ables:
default_filter_kill_case
default_filter_kill_expire
default_filter_kill_global
default_filter_kill_header
Read the section GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE
VARIABLES for a full explanation of these variables and FIL‐
TERING ARTICLES for more information on filtering.
<CR> Goto next base article.
<TAB> Goto next unread article. If the tinrc variable
tab_goto_next_unread is set to OFF, then this key will first
page through the current article.
a Author forward search.
A Author backward search.
B Search the body of all articles in group (can be slow). You
can abort the search using 'q'.
c Mark the current thread as read [after confirmation] and
return to the previous menu. Move cursor to next item.
C Mark the rest of the current thread as read [after confirma‐
tion] and enter the next thread with unread articles. If no
unread articles are left in this group, enter the next group
with unread news.
D Cancel the current article. It must have been posted by the
same user. The cancel message can be seen in the newsgroup
'control' or 'control.cancel'.
e Edit the current article. Only available when in a mailgroup.
E Edit the filter file and reload it afterwards.
f Post a followup to the current article with a copy of the
article included.
F Post a followup to the current article without including a a
copy of the article.
g Goto the start of the article
G Goto the end of the article
h Help screen of article pager commands. You can use / and ? to
search on this screen.
H Toggle the display of the mini help menu at the bottom of the
screen.
i Display the subject of the current article in the last line.
I Toggle inverse video.
k Mark article as read and move on to next unread article.
Behaves identically to N.
K Mark rest of thread as read and move onto the next unread
thread.
l Show the thread menu that the current article is a part of.
L Look up article by ``Message:-ID:''.
m Mail current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles to someone.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
M User configurable options menu (for more information see sec‐
tion GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES).
n Go to the next article.
N Go to the next unread article.
o Send current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles to printer.
See the section MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING
ARTICLES for more information.
p Go to the previous article.
P Go to the previous unread article.
q Return to the previous level.
Q Quit tin - don't ask the user to confirm.
r Reply through mail to the author of the current article with
a copy of the article included.
R Reply through mail to the author of the current article with‐
out including the original article.
s Save current article / thread / auto-selected (hot) articles
/ articles matching pattern / tagged articles. See the sec‐
tion MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES
for more information.
S Save tagged articles automatically without further prompting.
t Toggle tag status of current article for mailing (`m') / pip‐
ing (`|') / printing (`o') / saving (`s') / reposting (`x').
T Return to group selection level.
u Goto parent article.
w Post an article to the current group. If posting fails for
some reason, you'll get the chance to edit (`e') the article
again, postpone (`o') it for later processing (see also
``-o''command-line switch) or discard (`q') it.
x Repost an already posted article / thread / auto-selected
(hot) articles / articles matching pattern / tagged articles
to another newsgroup(s). Useful for reposting from global to
local newsgroups. Do not use this to crosspost your own
articles.
z Mark article as unread.
Z Mark the current thread as unread.
GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU AND TINRC CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
At startup, tin reads in the configuration file. This contains a list
of variables that can be used to configure the way tin works. If it
exists, the global configuration file, /usr/lib/news/tinrc is read.
After that, the users own configuration file is read from
$HOME/.tin/tinrc. The global file is useful for distributing system-
wide defaults to new users who have no private tinrc yet.
The variables are user configurable by editing $HOME/.tin/tinrc
directly. Most of them can also be set in the GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU which
is accessed by pressing `M' at all levels. It allows the user to cus‐
tomize the behaviour of tin. The options are saved to the file
$HOME/.tin/tinrc when you exit tin so don't edit the file directly
whilst tin is running.
In the OPTIONS menu use the cursor keys in the usual way to move
around. Use <CR> to 'open' the option you wish to change. You will
need to enter a new value or use <SPACE> to toggle the available
options. <CR> will save the new value, <ESCAPE> will abort without sav‐
ing changes.
As with the other menus, `^L' will redraw the screen. You can use `/'
and `?' to search for a specific option. Use 'q' to exit the OPTIONS
menu and keep your changes. Use 'Q' to exit without keeping your
changes.
Here is a full list of all the available variables. The name in braces
is the name of the corresponding setting in $HOME/.tin/tinrc.
Add posted articles to filter (add_posted_to_filter)
If ON add posted articles to filter for highlighting follow-ups.
Default is ON.
Insert 'User-Agent:'-header (advertising)
Turn ON advertising in header (``User-Agent:''). Default is ON.
Skip multipart/alternative parts (alternative_handling)
If ON strip multipart/alternative messages automatically.
Character to show deleted articles (art_marked_deleted)
The character used to show that an article was deleted. Default is
'D'.
Character to show inrange articles (art_marked_inrange)
The character used to show that an article is in a range. Default
is '#'.
Character to show articles that will be marked unread
(art_marked_return)
The character used to show that an article will return as an unread
article when the group is next entered. Default is '-'.
Character to show selected articles (art_marked_selected)
The character used to show that an article/thread is auto-selected
(hot). Default is '*'.
Character to show recent articles (art_marked_recent)
The character used to show that an article/thread is recent (not
older than X days). See also recent_time. Default is 'o'.
Character to show unread articles (art_marked_unread)
The character used to show that an article has not been read.
Default is '+'.
Character to show read articles (art_marked_read)
The character used to show that an article was read. Default is '
'.
Character to show read articles (art_marked_killed)
The character used to show that an article was killed. Default is
'K'. kill_level must be set accordingly.
Character to show read selected articles (art_marked_read_selected)
The character used to show that an article was hot before it was
read. Default is ':'. kill_level must be set accordingly.
Ask before using metamail (ask_for_metamail)
If ON tin will ask before using metamail to display MIME messages.
This only occurs if 'use_metamail' is also switched ON. Default is
ON.
Send you a blind cc automatically (auto_bcc)
If ON automatically put your name in the ``Bcc:'' field when mail‐
ing an article. Default is OFF
Send you a cc automatically (auto_cc)
If ON automatically put your name in the ``Cc:'' field when mailing
an article. Default is OFF
List thread using right arrow key (auto_list_thread)
If ON automatically list thread when entering it using right arrow
key. Default is ON.
Use Archive-name: header for save (auto_save)
If ON articles/threads with ``Archive-name:'' in header will be
automatically saved with the Archive-name & part/patch no and post
processed if process type is not set to none. Default is OFF
Save articles in batch mode (batch_save)
If set ON articles/threads will be saved in batch mode when save
``-S'' or mail ``-M, -N'' is specified on the command line.
Default is OFF.
Show mini menu & posting etiquette (beginner_level)
If set ON a mini menu of the most useful commands will be displayed
at the bottom of the screen for each level. Also a short posting
etiquette will be displayed after composing an article. Default is
ON.
Cache NNTP overview files locally (cache_overview_files)
If ON, create local copies of NNTP overview files. This can be used
to considerably speed up accessing large groups when using a slow
connection.
Catchup read groups when quitting (catchup_read_groups)
If set ON the user is asked when quitting if all groups read during
the current session should be marked read. Default is OFF.
Standard background color (col_back)
Standard background color
Color of sender (From:) (col_from)
Color of sender (From:)
col_head
Color of header-lines
col_help
Color of help pages
col_invers_bg
Color of background for inverse text
col_invers_fg
Color of foreground for inverse text
col_markdash
Color of words emphasised like _this_. See also word_h_dis‐
play_marks
col_markstar
Color of words emphasised like *this*. See also word_h_dis‐
play_marks
col_minihelp
Color of mini help menu
col_newsheaders
Color of actual news header fields
col_normal
Standard foreground color
col_quote
Color of quoted lines
col_quote2
Color of twice quoted lines
col_quote3
Color of >=3 times quoted lines
col_response
Color of response counter. This is the text that says 'Response x
of y' in the article viewer.
col_signature
Color of signatures
col_subject
Color of article subject
col_text
Color of text-lines
col_title
Color of title text on all the menu screens
Confirm commands before executing (confirm_action)
Ask for confirmation before executing certain dangerous commands
(e.g., `c'atchup). Default is ON. Commands that this affects are
marked in this manual with '[after confirmation]'.
Confirm before quitting (confirm_to_quit)
If ON you will be asked to confirm that you wish to exit tin when
you use the 'q' command. Default is ON. they are intended for
internal use only.
default_art_search
default_author_search
default_config_search
The last article/author/config option that was searched for
default_editor_format
The format string used to create the editor start command with
parameters. Default is '%E +%N %F' (i.e., /bin/vi +7 .article).
default_filter_days
Default is 28.
default_filter_kill_case
Defaults for quick (1 key) kill filter case. ON = filter case sen‐
sitive, OFF = ignore case. Default is OFF.
default_filter_kill_expire
Defaults for quick (1 key) kill filter expire. ON = limit to
'default_filter_days', OFF = don't ever expire. Default is OFF.
default_filter_kill_global
Defaults for quick (1 key) kill filter global. ON=apply to all
groups OFF=apply to current group. Default is ON.
default_filter_kill_header
Defaults for quick (1 key) kill filter header. 0,1 = ``Subject:'',
2,3 = ``From:'', 4 = ``Message-Id:'' & full ``References:'' line, 5
= ``Message-Id:'' & last ``References:'' entry only, 6 = ``Message-
Id:'' entry only, 7 = ``Lines:''
default_filter_select_case
Defaults for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter case. ON=filter
case sensitive OFF=ignore case. Default is OFF.
default_filter_select_expire
Defaults for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter expire. ON =
limit to 'default_filter_days', OFF = don't ever expire. Default is
OFF.
default_filter_select_global
Defaults for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter global. ON=apply
to all groups OFF=apply to current group. Default is ON.
default_filter_select_header
Defaults for quick (1 key) auto-selection filter header. 0,1 =
``Subject:'', 2,3 = ``From:'', 4 = ``Message-Id:'' & full ``Refer‐
ences:'' line, 5 = ``Message-Id:'' & last ``References:'' entry
only, 6 = ``Message-Id:'' entry only, 7 = ``Lines:''
default_goto_group
default_group_search
default_mail_address
Mail directory (default_maildir)
The directory where articles/threads are to be saved in mailbox
format. This feature is mainly for use with the Elm mail program.
It allows the user to save articles/threads/groups simply by giving
'=' as the filename to save to. Default is $HOME/Mail.
Invocation of your mail command (default_mailer_format)
The format string used to create the mailer command with parameters
that is used for mailing articles to other people. Default is '%M
"%T" < %F' (i.e., /bin/mail "iain" < .article). The flexible format
allows other mailers with different command line parameters to be
used such as 'elm -s "%S" "%T" < "%F"' (i.e., elm -s "subject"
"iain" < .article) or 'sendmail -oem -t < %F' (i.e. sendmail -oem
-t < .article).
default_move_group
default_pipe_command
default_post_newsgroups
default_post_subject
Printer program with options (default_printer)
The printer program with options that is to be used to print arti‐
cles. The default is lpr(1) for BSD machines and lp(1) for SysV
machines. Printing from tin may have been disabled by the System
Administrator
default_range_group
default_range_select
default_range_thread
default_regex_pattern
default_repost_group
default_save_file
default_save_mode
Directory to save articles/threads in (default_savedir)
Directory where articles/threads are saved. Default is $HOME/News.
default_select_pattern
default_shell_command
Create signature from path/command (default_sigfile)
The path that specifies the signature file to use when posting,
following up to or replying to an article. If the path is a direc‐
tory then the signature will be randomly generated from files that
are in the specified directory. Default is $HOME/.Sig.
default_subject_search
Draw -> instead of highlighted bar (draw_arrow)
Allows groups/articles to be selected by an arrow '->' if set ON or
by an highlighted bar if set OFF.
Force redraw after certain commands (force_screen_redraw)
Specifies whether a screen redraw should always be done after cer‐
tain external commands. Default is OFF.
Scroll full page (full_page_scroll)
If set ON then PageUp and PageDown move the cursor by a full page
at a time, otherwise movement is half a page at a time. Currently
this has no effect in the GLOBAL OPTIONS MENU.
Number of articles per group to get (getart_limit)
If use_getart_limit is ON and getart_limit is > 0 not more than
getart_limit articles/group are fetched from the server. If
use_getart_limit is ON and getart_limit is < 0 tin will start
fetching articles from your first unread minus absolute value of
getart_limit. Default is 0, which means no limit.
Number of days during which article is considered recent (recent_time)
If set to 0, this feature is deactivated, otherwise it means the
number of days. Default is 2.
Catchup group using left key (group_catchup_on_exit)
If ON catchup group when leaving with the left arrow key. Default
is ON.
Max. length of group names shown (groupname_max_length)
Maximum length of the names of newsgroups to be displayed so that
more of the newgroup description can be displayed. Default is 32.
Treat uuencoded sections like an attachment (hide_uue)
If ON, then sections of uuencoded data will be shown with a single
tag line showing the size and filename (much the same as a MIME
attachment). Otherwise the raw uuencoded data is displayed.
Default is OFF. This behaviour can also be toggled in the article
viewer.
info_in_last_line
If ON, show current group description or article subject in the
last line (not in the pager and global menu) - `i' toggles setting.
This facility is useful as the full width of the screen is avail‐
able to display long subjects.
Use inverse video for page headers (inverse_okay)
If ON use inverse video for page headers at different levels.
Default is ON.
Keep failed articles in ~/dead.articles (keep_dead_articles)
If ON keep all failed postings in $HOME/dead.articles besides keep‐
ing the last failed posting in $HOME/dead.article. Default is ON.
Keep posted articles in ~/Mail/posted (keep_posted_articles)
If ON keep all postings in $HOME/Mail/posted. Default is ON.
Handling of killed articles (kill_level)
This option controls the processing and display of articles that
are killed. There are 3 options: 0 (default) is the 'traditional'
behaviour of tin. Only unread articles are killed once only by
marking them read. Options 1 and 2 will process all articles in the
group and therefore there is a processing overhead when using them.
Option 1 will thread killed articles as normal but they will be
marked with a 'K'. Option 2 simply does not display killed arti‐
cles. kill_level was first present is tin-1.2 and has been resur‐
rected for 1.4
Use 8bit characters in mail headers (mail_8bit_header)
Allows 8bit characters unencoded in the header of mail message.
Default is OFF. Turning it ON is effective only if mail_mime_encod‐
ing is also set to 8bit. Leaving it OFF is safe for most users and
compliant to Internet Mail Standard (STD 11/RFC 822 and RFC 2047).
Mail address (mail_address)
User's mail address (and fullname), if not username@host. This is
used when creating articles, sending mail and when PGP signing.
MIME encoding in mail messages (mail_mime_encoding)
MIME encoding of the body in mail message, if necessary (8bit,
base64, quoted-printable, 7bit) Default is 8bit and no encoding (or
charset conversion) is performed (i.e., local charset is used as it
is). If set to 7bit, CJK text in 8bit encoding (EUC-CN, EUC-TW,
EUC-JP, EUC-KR, Big5, Shift_JIS) is supposed to be converted into
ISO-2022-KR/JP/CN. Only EUC-KR to ISO-2022-KR conversion has been
implemented, however. Accordingly, setting it to 7bit has no effect
on MIME charsets/encodings other than EUC-KR (Korean).
Quote line when mailing (mail_quote_format)
Default is "In article %M you wrote:"
Mark saved articles/threads as read (mark_saved_read)
If ON mark articles that are saved as read. Default is ON.
MM_CHARSET (mm_charset)
Charset supported locally, which is also used for MIME header
(charset parameter and charset name in header encoding) in mail and
news posting unless local charset/encoding needs to be converted
into other charset/encoding as in case of EUC-KR which is converted
to ISO-2022-KR if mail_mime_encoding is set to 7bit. Possible val‐
ues include ISO-8859-X (where X is 1 to 10), EUC-JP, EUC-CN, EUC-
KR, EUC-TW, Big5, Shift_JIS, and so forth. If MIME_STRICT_CHARSET
is defined at the compile time, text in charset other than the
value of this parameter is considered not displayable and repre‐
sented as '?'. Otherwise, all character sets are regarded as com‐
patible with the display. If it's not set, the value of the envi‐
ronment variable $MM_CHARSET is used. US-ASCII or compile-time
default is used in case neither of them is defined.
newnews
These are internal timers used by tin to keep track of new news‐
groups. Do not change them unless you understand what they are for.
Display these header fields (or *) (news_headers_to_display)
Which news headers you wish to see. If you want to see _all_ the
headers, place an '*' as this value. This is the only way a wild‐
card can be used. If you enter 'X-' as the value, you will see all
headers beginning with 'X-' (like X-Alan or X-Pape). You can list
more than one by delimiting with spaces. Not defining anything
turns off this option.
Do not display these header fields (news_headers_to_not_display)
Same as news_headers_to_display except it denotes the opposite. An
example of using both options might be if you thought X- headers
were A Good Thing(tm), but thought Alan and Pape were miscre‐
ants...well then you would do something like this: news_head‐
ers_to_display=X- news_headers_to_not_display=X-Alan X-Pape Not
defining anything turns off this option.
Quote line when following up (news_quote_format)
Format of quote line when posting/following up an article
(%A=Address, %D=Date, %F=Addr+Name, %G=Groupname, %M=Message-Id,
%N=Name). Default is "%F wrote:"
PgDn goes to next article at end of article (pgdn_goto_next)
If ON the Page Down keys will goto the next article when pressed at
the end of a message
Goto first unread article in group (pos_first_unread)
If ON put cursor at first unread article in group otherwise at last
article. Default is ON.
Use 8bit characters in news headers (post_8bit_header)
Allows 8bit characters unencoded in the header of news article.
Default is OFF. Only enacted if post_mime_encoding is also set to
8bit. In a number of local hierarchies where 8bit characters are
used, using unencoded (raw) 8bit characters in header is acceptable
and sometimes even recommended so that you need to check the con‐
vention adopted in the local hierarchy of your interest to deter‐
mine what to do with this and post_mime_encoding.
MIME encoding in news messages (post_mime_encoding)
MIME encoding of the body in news message, if necessary. (8bit,
base64, quoted-printable, 7bit) Default is 8bit, which leads to no
encoding (or charset conversion, i.e., local charset is posted as
it is). If set to 7bit, Chinese and Japanese text (in 8bit encod‐
ings such as EUC-CN, EUC-TW, EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, Big5) is supposed
to be converted into ISO-2022-CN/JP, but it's NOT yet implemented.
Therefore, currently 7bit has NO effect (i.e. equivalent to 8bit)
whatever MIME charset/encoding is chosen.
post_process_view
If ON, then tin will start an appropriate viewer program to display
any files that were post processed and uudecoded. The program is
determined using the mailcap file.
Post process saved art/thread with (post_process_type)
This specifies the default type of post processing to perform on
saved articles. The following types of processing are allowed:
—none.
—unpacking of multi-part shar files (shell archives).
—unpacking of multi-part uuencoded files.
Print all headers when printing (print_header)
If ON, then the full article header is sent to the printer. Other‐
wise only the ``Subject:'' and ``From:'' fields are output.
Default is OFF.
Process only unread articles (process_only_unread)
If ON only save/print/pipe/mail unread articles (tagged articles
excepted). Default is ON.
Show empty Followup-To in editor (prompt_followupto)
If ON show empty Followup-To header when editing an article
Characters used as quote-marks (quote_chars)
The character used in quoting included text to article followups
and mail replies. The '_' character represents a blank character
and is replaced with ' ' when read. Default is '>_'.
Quote empty lines (quote_empty_lines)
If ON quote empty lines, too. Default is OFF due to backward com‐
patibility, but it is highly recommended to turn it on as it makes
quotes much more readable.
Expression for highlighting quoted text (quote_regex)
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles.
All matching lines are shown in col_quote. If quote_regex is blank,
then tin uses a builtin default for this.
Expression for highlighting twice quoted text (quote_regex2)
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles.
All matching lines are shown in col_quote2. If quote_regex2 is
blank, then tin uses a builtin default for this.
Expression for highlighting =>3 times quoted text (quote_regex3)
A regular expression that will be applied when reading articles.
All matching lines are shown in col_quote3. If quote_regex3 is
blank, then tin uses a builtin default for this.
Quote signatures (quote_signatures)
If ON quote signatures, too.
Interval in secs to reread active (reread_active_file_secs)
The news active file is reread at regular intervals to show if any
new news has arrived. Default is 1200. Setting this to 0 will dis‐
able this feature.
Save mail in MMDF style (save_to_mmdf_mailbox)
Allows articles to be saved to a MMDF style mailbox instead of
mbox(5) format. Default is OFF unless reading news on SCO Unix
which uses MMDF by default.
In group menu, show author by (show_author)
—None (0) only the ``Subject:'' line will be displayed.
—Addr (1) ``Subject:'' line & the address part of the ``From:''
line are displayed.
—Name (2) ``Subject:'' line & the authors full name part of the
``From:'' line are displayed.
—Both (3) ``Subject:'' line & all of the ``From:'' line are
displayed.
Default is 2, authors full name.
Show description of each newsgroup (show_description)
If ON show a short group description text after newsgroup name at
the group selection level. The ``-d'' commandline flag will over‐
ride the setting and turn descriptions off. The text used is taken
from the $NEWSLIBDIR/newsgroups file. Default is ON.
Show last line of previous page (show_last_line_prev_page)
The last line of the previous page will be displayed as the first
line of next page. Default is OFF.
Show no. of lines in thread listing (show_lines)
Show number of lines of first unread article in thread listing
(ON/OFF).
Show only unread articles (show_only_unread)
If ON show only new/unread articles otherwise show all articles.
Default is ON.
Show only groups with unread articles (show_only_unread_groups)
If ON show only subscribed to groups that contain unread articles.
Default is OFF.
Display signatures (show_signatures)
If OFF don't show signatures when displaying articles.
Display X-Comment-To: header (show_xcommentto)
If ON, the real name in the ``X-Comment-To:'' header is displayed
in the upper-right corner. Default is OFF.
Prepend signature with '\n-- \n' (sigdashes)
If ON prepend the signature with sigdashes. Default is ON.
Add signature when reposting (signature_repost)
If ON add signature to reposted articles.
Sort articles by (sort_article_type)
This specifies how articles should be sorted. The following sort
types are allowed:
—don't sort articles (none=0).
—sort articles by ``Subject:'' field (descending=1 & ascend‐
ing=2).
—sort articles by ``From:'' field (descending=3 & ascending=4).
—sort articles by ``Date:'' field (descending=5 & ascending=6).
—sort articles by filtering score (descending=7 & ascending=8).
Sort by ascending Date (6) is the default.
Spamtrap warning address parts (spamtrap_warning_addresses)
Set this option to a list of comma-separated strings to be warned
if you are replying to an article by mail where the e-mail address
contains one of these strings. The matching is case-insensitive.
Space goes to next unread article (space_goto_next_unread)
SPACE normally acts as a Page Down key and has no effect at the end
of an article. If this option is turned ON the SPACE command will
goto the next unread article when the end of the article is reached
(rn-style pager)
Start editor with line offset (start_editor_offset)
Set ON if the editor used for posting, follow-ups and bug reports
has the capability of starting and positioning the cursor at a
specified line within a file. Default is ON.
Strip blanks of end of lines (strip_blanks)
Strips the blanks from the end of each line therefore speeding up
the display when reading on a slow terminal or via modem. Default
is ON.
Remove bogus groups from newsrc (strip_bogus)
Bogus groups are groups that are present in your .newsrc file that
no longer exist on the news server. There are 3 options. 0 means do
nothing & always keep bogus groups. 1 means bogus groups will be
permanently removed. 2 means that bogus groups will appear on the
Group Selection Menu, prefixed with a 'D'. This allows you to
unsubscribe from them as and when you wish. Default is 0 (Always
Keep).
No unsubscribed groups in newsrc (strip_newsrc)
If ON, then unsubscribed groups will be permanently removed from
your .newsrc file. Default is OFF.
Do tab after X automatically (tab_after_X_selection)
If enabled will automatically goto the first unread article after
having selected all hot articles and threads with the `X' command
at group index level. Default is OFF.
Tab goes to next unread article (tab_goto_next_unread)
If enabled pressing <TAB> at the article viewer level will goto the
next unread article immediately instead of first paging through the
current one. Default is ON.
Thread articles by (thread_articles)
Defines which threading method to use. The choices are: 0) Don't
thread, 1) Thread on Subject only 2) Thread on References only, 3)
Thread on References then Subject (default). It's also possible to
set the threading type on a per group basis by setting the group
attribute variable 'thread_arts' to 0 - 3 in the file
$HOME/.tin/attributes. (See also GROUP ATTRIBUTES)
Catchup thread by using left key (thread_catchup_on_exit)
If ON catchup group/thread when leaving with the left arrow key.
Default is ON.
Remove ~/.article after posting (unlink_article)
If ON remove ~/.article after posting. Default is ON.
Use builtin inews (use_builtin_inews)
Allows the builtin NNTP inews to be enabled/disabled. This has no
effect when reading/posting direct to local spool where external
inews(1) will always be used. Default is ON (enabled).
Limit number of articles fetched from server (use_getart_limit)
If enabled tin fetches max. getart_limit articles/group from the
server. Default is OFF.
Use ANSI color (use_color)
If enabled tin uses ANSI-colors. Default is OFF.
Use interactive mail reader (use_mailreader_i)
Interactive mailreader: if ON mailreader will be invoked earlier
for reply so you can use more of its features (eg. MIME, pgp, ...)
this option has to suit default_mailer_format
Use metamail upon MIME articles (use_metamail)
If ON metamail can/will be used to display MIME articles. Default
is ON.
Use mouse in xterm (use_mouse)
Allows the mouse key support in a xterm(1x) to be enabled/disabled.
Default is OFF.
Wildcard matching (wildcard)
Allows you to select how tin matches strings. The default is 0 and
uses the wildmat notation, which is how this has traditionally been
handled. Setting this to 1 allows you to use full POSIX regular
expressions. You will probably want to update your filter file if
you use this regularly. NB: Newsgroup names will always be matched
using the wildmat notation.
What to display instead of mark (word_h_display_marks)
Should the leading and ending stars and dashes also be displayed,
even when they are highlighting marks? 0 - no 1 - yes, display
mark 2 - print a space instead 3 - print a space, but only in
signatures
Word highlighting in message body (word_highlight)
Enable word highlighting. See word_h_display_marks for the options
available is this is enabled.
Quote line when cross-posting (xpost_quote_format)
Format is the same as for news_quote_format, this is used when
answering to a crossposting to several groups with no ``Followup-
To:'' set
GROUP ATTRIBUTEStin allows certain attributes to be set on a per group basis. These
group attributes are read from the file $HOME/.tin/attributes. A later
version will provide a menu interface to set all the attributes. At
present you will have to edit the file with your editor.
Note that the scope=<grouplist> line has to be specified before the
attributes are specified for that list. All attributes are set to a
reasonable default so you only have to specify the attribute that you
want to change (i.e., savedir). All toggle attributes are set by speci‐
fying ON/OFF. Otherwise, these function exactly the same as their
global equivalents. The following group attributes are available:
scope
This changes the list of groups to which the attributes that follow
will be applied. See the section NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS for
the types of pattern that can be used here.
maildir
Identical to the tinrc variable default_maildir
savedir
Identical to the tinrc variable default_savedir
savefile
organization
from
Identical to the tinrc variable mail_address
sigfile
followup_to
printer
auto_select
auto_save
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
batch_save
Can be used to override the global setting in tinrc on a per group
basis. For more information read section AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAV‐
ING NEW NEWS.
delete_tmp_files
If this is set to ON, then saved article files that have been post-
processed will be automatically deleted. If set to OFF, you will
be prompted as to whether to delete each file in turn. Note that
automatic processing of Tagged articles using 'S' will also sup‐
press promting.
show_only_unread
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
thread_arts
Identical to the tinrc variable thread_articles
show_author
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
sort_art_type
Identical to the tinrc variable sort_article_type
post_proc_type
Identical to the tinrc variable post_process_type
mailing_list
Used when a group is a mailing list. All responses to the group
will be directed to this email address instead
x_headers
A list of headers that will be automatically added when posting
x_body
A piece of text that will be added at the start of a message body.
If this string starts with a / or ~ then it is assumed to be the
name of a file containing the text to insert.
quick_kill_scope
quick_kill_expire
quick_kill_case
quick_kill_header
quick_select_scope
quick_select_expire
quick_select_case
quick_select_header
x_comment_to
news_quote_format
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
quote_chars
Identical to the tinrc variable of the same name
ispell
Examples:
# include extra headers
scope=*
x_headers=~/.tin/headers
# in *sources* set post process type to shar
scope=*sources*
post_proc_type=1
# in *binaries* set post process type to uudecode
# remove tmp files and set Followup-To: poster
scope=*binaries*
post_proc_type=2
delete_tmp_files=ON
followup_to=poster
# in fido.* newsgroups change quote_chars
# and add X-Comment-To: line
scope=fido.*
quote_chars=%s>_
x_comment_to=ON
# in *.test newsgroups, don't append signature
# and preset Subject
scope=*.test
sigfile=--none
x_headers=Subject: test - ignore - no reply
FILTERING ARTICLES
When there is a subject or an author which you are either very inter‐
ested in, or find completely uninteresting, you can easily instruct tin
to auto-select or auto-kill articles that match rules that you specify.
This can be anything from the name of the author to the number of lines
in an article.
When tin starts up the user's killfile $HOME/.tin/filter is read. Each
time a newsgroup is entered the rules are applied and articles killed
or selected when they meet certain criteria.
The degree to which rules are applied depend on the kill_level tinrc
setting. By default killed articles will only be marked read. Adjust
kill_level for more agressive processing. Articles that match an auto-
selection rule are marked with a ``*''.
Filtering rules can be manually entered into $HOME/.tin/filter (but
don't do this whilst running tin else you will lose your changes) or by
using an on screen menu within tin.
The filtering capabilities of tin have been significantly enhanced over
previous versions to include scoring and better pattern matching. It is
recommended that you read the file filtering in the tin documentation
directory.
The on screen filtering menu is accessed by pressing `^K' at the group
and page levels. It allows the user to kill or select an article that
matches the current ``Subject:'' line, ``From:'' line or a string
entered by the user. The user entered string can be applied to the
``Subject:'' or ``From:'' lines of an article. The kill description can
be limited to the current newsgroup or it can apply to all newsgroups.
Once entered the user can abort the command and not save the kill
description, edit the kill file or save the kill description.
POSTING ARTICLEStin allows posting of articles, follow-up to already posted articles
and replying direct through mail to the author of an article.
Use the `w' command to post an article to a newsgroup. After entering
the post subject the default editor (i.e., vi) or the editor specified
by the $EDITOR environment variable will be started and the article can
be entered. To crosspost articles simply add a comma and the name of
the newsgroup(s) to the end of the ``Newsgroups:'' line at the begin‐
ning of the article. After saving and exiting the editor you are asked
if you wish to a)bort posting the article, e)dit the article again or
p)ost the article to the specified newsgroup(s).
Use the `W' command to display a history of the articles you have
posted. The date the article was posted, which newsgroups the article
was posted to and the articles subject line are displayed.
Use the `f' / `F' / `^W' command to post a follow-up article to an
already posted article. The `f' command will copy the text of the orig‐
inal article into the editor. The `^W' command will copy the text and
all headers of the original article into the editor. The editing proce‐
dure is the same as when posting an article with the `w' command.
Use the `r' / `R' / `^E' command to reply direct through mail to the
author of an already posted article. The `r' command will copy the text
of the original article into the editor. The `^E' command will copy the
text and all headers of the original article into the editor. The edit‐
ing procedure is the same as when posting an article with the `w' com‐
mand. After saving and exiting the editor you are asked if you wish to
a)bort sending the article, e)dit the article again or s)end the arti‐
cle to the author.
CUSTOMIZING THE ARTICLE QUOTE STRING
When posting a followup to an article or replying direct to the author
of an article via email the text of the article can be quoted. The
beginning of the quoted text can contain information about the quoted
article (i.e., Name and the Message Id of the article). To allow for
different situations certain information from the article can be used
in the quoted string. The following variables are expanded if found in
the tinrc variables 'mail_quote_format' or 'news_quote_format':
%A Address (Email)
%D Date
%F Full address (%N (%A))
%G Groupname
%M Message Id
%N Name of user
i.e.,
mail_quote_format=On %D in %G you wrote:
news_quote_format=In %M, %F wrote:
would expand to:
On 21 Jul 1992 09:45:51 -0400 in alt.sources you wrote:
In <abcINN123@ecrc.de>, Iain Lea (iain@ecrc.de) wrote:
The quoted text section of an article is marked by a preceding quote
string at the beginning of each quoted line. The default quote string
is set to '>_'. The default can be changed by setting the tinrc vari‐
able 'quote_chars' to ones own preference. (note that '_' underline is
used to represent a space).
MAILING PIPING PRINTING REPOSTING AND SAVING ARTICLES
The command interface to mail (`m'), pipe (`|'), print (`o'), repost
(`x') and save (`s' and 'S') articles is the same for ease of use.
Auto-saving with 'S' is a special case and operates only on tagged
articles. They will processed without any further prompting according
to the default save paramters defined in tinrc or by any attributes set
for the current group.
Otherwise, the initial prompt will ask you to select which a)rticle,
t)hread, h)ot (auto-selected) r)egex pattern, t)agged articles you wish
to mail, pipe etc.
Tagged articles must have already been tagged with the `t' command.
All tagged articles can be untagged by the 'U' untag command.
If a regex pattern is selected you are asked to enter a pattern (i.e.,
to match all articles subject lines containing 'net News' you enter
"net News"). Any articles that match the entered expression will be
mailed, piped etc. See also the wildcard tinrc variable for advanced
pattern matching options.
Various expansion characters are recognised when entering the directory
and file to save to. Environment variables (prefixed with '$') and user
home directories (prefixed by '~' or '~username') can be specified.
Environment variables can themselves contain other special characters
To save articles to a mailbox enter '=<mailbox name>' when asked for
the save filename. If you enter just '=' then articles will be saved to
a mailbox with the name of the current newsgroup (eg, alt.sources).
See default_maildir.
To save in savedir/<news.group.name>/<filename> format enter '+<file‐
name>'. Environment variables are allowed within a filename (i.e.,
$SOURCES/dir/filename). See default_savedir.
When saving articles you can specify whether the saved files should be
post processed (i.e., unshar(1) shell archive, uudecode(1) multiple
parts etc). A default process type can be set by the 'Process type:' in
the `M' options menu.
AUTOMATIC MAILING AND SAVING NEW NEWStin allows new/unread news articles to be mailed (``-M'' and ``-N''
option) or saved (``-S'' option) in batch mode for later reading. Use‐
ful when going on holiday and you don't want to return and find that
expire has removed a whole load of unread articles. Best to run from
crontab everyday while away, after which you will be mailed a report of
which articles were mailed/saved from which newsgroups and the total
number of articles mailed/saved. Articles are saved in a private news
structure under your <savedir> directory (default is $HOME/News). Be
careful of using this option if you read a lot of groups because you
could overflow your file system.
If you only want to save some of your groups use the batch_save tinrc
variable. Set to ON or OFF in tinrc to enable/disable saving of all
groups and then use the batch_save attribute to fine tune which groups
you want to have saved. For example, if you want to save most of your
groups, then set batch_save to ON in tinrc and selectively turn off the
ones you don't want using attributes.
tin-M iain -c -f newsrc.mail
(mail any unread articles in newsgroups specified
in file newsrc.mail and mark them as read)
tin-S -c -f newsrc.save
(save any unread articles in newsgroups specified
in file newsrc.save and mark them as read)
tin-R (read any articles saved by tin -S)
RANGES
A range is simply a group of items marked using the range ('#') key.
Certain tin commands will operate on a range if one exists rather than
just the current item. A range is an expression of the form
<min>-<max>, eg. 10-15 will highlight items 10 through 15 on the cur‐
rent screen. Other than absolute numeric positions, '.' can be used in
place of the current cursor position and '$' can be used to mean the
highest number available. Currently the only commands that understand
ranges are 'K', 'z' and 'Z' at the Group level.
NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS
Several places in tin allow you to specify a list of newsgroups. These
include command line groups, (un)subscribe groups, the AUTO[UN]SUB‐
SCRIBE mechanism. The scope= attributes file tag and the filter file
group= tag also use the same syntax. tin interprets this variable sim‐
ilarly to rn. It contains a list of patterns, separated by commas and
possibly prefixed with exclamation points. An exclamation point
negates the meaning of a match on this pattern, and can be used to can‐
cel certain matches. Some examples:
alt.config news.*,!news.test
Matches alt.config and everything in the 'news' hierarchy except
news.test
See the explanation for the AUTOSUBSCRIBE variables for further exam‐
ples.
SIGNATUREStin will recognize a signature in either $HOME/.signature or
$HOME/.Sig. If $HOME/.signature exists, then the signature will be
pulled into the editor for mail commands. A signature in $HOME/.signa‐
ture will not be pulled into the editor for posting commands since
inews(1) will append the signature itself.
A signature in $HOME/.Sig will be pulled into the editor for both post‐
ing and mailing commands.
The following is an example of a $HOME/.Sig file:
NAMES Iain Lea iain@ecrc.de
SNAIL Bruecken Str 12, 90419 Nuernberg 90, Germany
tin also has the capability to generate random signatures on a per
newsgroup basis if so desired. The way to accomplish this is to specify
the default signature or the group attribute sigfile as a directory.
If for example the sigfile path is /usr/iain/.sigs and .sigs is a
directory then tin will select a random signature from any file that is
in the directory .sigs (note: one signature per numbered file). A ran‐
dom signature can also consist of a fixed part signature that can con‐
tain your name, address etc. followed by the random sig. The fixed part
of the random sig is read from the file $HOME/.sigfixed.
TIPS AND TRICKStin can be pretty much be navigated by using the four cursor keys. The
left arrow key goes up a level, the right arrow key goes down a level,
the up arrow key goes up a line and the down arrow key goes down a
line.
The following newsgroups provide useful information concerning news
software:
—news.software.readers (info. about news user agents tin, rn, nn,
vn etc.)
—news.software.nntp (info. about NNTP)
—news.software.b (info. about news transport agents Bnews, Cnews
and INN)
—news.answers (Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about many differ‐
ent themes)
Many prompts (i.e., 'Mark everything as read? (y/n): y') within tin
offer a default choice that the cursor is positioned on. By pressing
<CR> the default value is taken.
Many prompts (i.e., 'Post subject []>') within tin can be aborted by
pressing ESC.
When tin is run in an xterm(1x) it will resize itself each time the
xterm(1x) is resized.
tin will reread the active file at set intervals to show any newly
arrived news.
If you find large number of New newsgroups cluttering up your screen,
pressing 'r' will make them go away.
XTERM BUTTONS
If the environment variable $TERM is set to xterm(1x), then button
pressing can be used to select groups and articles. In this discus‐
sion, the buttons are assumed to be assigned conventionally (i.e., But‐
ton1 is the left button).
In general (i.e., for the group, thread and article menus),
Button1 (left)
enters next (lower) level if you click on a article, other‐
wise pages down.
Button2 (centre)
returns to the previous (upper) level if you click on a arti‐
cle, otherwise pages up.
Button3 (right)
positions on the article line under mouse cursor, or pages
down if you've clicked outside the list of articles.
In the group selection menu, if the mouse is pointing at a group then:
left button
moves to and selects the group pointed at, just like <CR>.
centre button
quits the program, just like `q'.
right button
moves to the group pointed at.
In the article menu, if the mouse is pointing at an article (or thread)
then:
left button
reads the article pointed at, just like <CR>, or the thread,
just like `l'.
centre button
exits the menu, catching up on the group if you have
`group_catchup_on_exit` set in your configuration, just like
`q'.
right button
moves to the article (or thread) pointed at.
In the thread menu, if the mouse is pointing at an article then:
left button
reads article pointed at, just like <CR>.
centre button
exits the menu, catching up on the thread if you have
'thread_catchup_on_exit' set in your configuration, just like
`q'.
right button
moves to the article pointed at.
In other menus and areas button pressing reverts back to usual cut and
paste of xterm(1x), but after one click of any button.
INDEX FILES
If your news server supports NOV index files (most modern installations
will), then this section can be ignored.
If your news server doesn't support NOV index files, tin will maintain
an index for each newsgroup. Each user creates/updates his/her own
index files that are stored in $HOME/.tin/.news. A good way to keep
index files updated is by doing a tin-U that will update index files
in the background while you are reading news in the foreground. You can
also update index files via the system batcher cron with the ``-u''
option:
30 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/tin -u
Entering a group the first time tends to be slow because the index file
must be built from scratch. To alleviate the slowness start tin to cre‐
ate all index files for the groups you subscribe to with tin-u -v and
go for a coffee. Subsequent readings of a group will cause incremental
updating of the index file.
If reading news remotely and updating index files locally, operation
will be somewhat slower because the articles must be retrieved from the
NNTP server.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
TINRC Define this variable if you want to specify command line options
that tin should be started with to save typing them each time it
is started. The contents of the environment variable are added
to the front of the command line options before it is parsed
therefore allowing an option specified on the command line to
override the same option specified in the environment.
TIN_HOMEDIR
Define this variable if you do not want the .tin directory in
$HOME/.tin. (i.e., if you want all tin's private files in
/tmp/.tin you would set $TIN_HOMEDIR to /tmp.
TIN_INDEX_NEWSDIR
Define this variable if you do not want the .news directory in
$HOME/.tin/.news. (i.e., if you want all tin's news index files
in /tmp/.news you would set $TIN_INDEX_NEWSDIR to /tmp.
TIN_INDEX_MAILDIR
Define this variable if you do not want the .mail directory in
$HOME/.tin/.mail. (i.e., if you want all tin's mail index files
in /tmp/.mail you would set $TIN_INDEX_MAILDIR to /tmp.
TIN_INDEX_SAVEDIR
Define this variable if you do not want the .save directory in
$HOME/.tin/.save. (i.e., if you want all tin's save index files
in /tmp/.save you would set $TIN_INDEX_SAVEDIR to /tmp.
TIN_LIBDIR
Define this variable if you want to override the NEWSLIBDIR path
that was compiled into the tin binary via the Makefile.
TIN_SPOOLDIR
Define this variable if you want to override the SPOOLDIR path
that was compiled into the tin binary via the Makefile.
TIN_NOVROOTDIR
Define this variable if you want to override the NOVROOTDIR path
that was compiled into the tin binary via the Makefile.
TIN_ACTIVEFILE
Define this variable if you want to override the NEWSLIB‐
DIR/active path that was compiled into the tin binary via the
Makefile.
NNTPSERVER
The default NNTP server to remotely read news from. This vari‐
able only needs to be set if the ``-r'' command line option is
specified and the file /etc/nntpserver does not exist.
NNTPPORT
The NNTP tcp port to read news from. This variable only needs to
be set if the the tcp port is not the default 119. The ``-p''
command line option overrides $NNTPPORT.
DISTRIBUTION
Set the article header field ``Distribution:'' to the contents
of the variable instead of the system default.
TEX2ISO
Set the article viewer to decode German style umlaut codes to
ISO latin1. Value 0 has the same effect as not defining the
variable. Use in combination with $ISO2ASC.
ISO2ASC
Set the ISO to ASCII charset decoding table character to use in
decoding an articles text. Values can range from 0 to 6.
BUG_ADDRESS
Set the address to which bugreports are mailto to the contents
of the variable instead of the system default. Its usage is
undesired, use bugaddress in tin.defaults instead.
ORGANIZATION
Set the article header field ``Organization:'' to the contents
of the variable instead of the system default. If reading news
on an Apollo DomainOS machine the environment variable $NEWSORG
has to be used instead of $ORGANIZATION.
REPLYTO
Set the article header field ``Reply-To:'' to the return address
specified by the variable. This is useful if the machine is not
registered in the UUCP mail maps or if you wish to receive
replies at a different machine.
NAME Overrides the fullname given in the gecos-files in /etc/passwd,
see also mail_address.
MAILER This variable has precedence over the default mailer that is
used in all mailing operations within tin.
EDITOR This variable has precedence over the default editor (i.e.,
vi(1) ) that is used in all editing operations within tin (i.e.,
posting `w', replying `r', follow-ups `f', ...).
VISUAL If $EDITOR is unset, then this variable is looked up for a
default editor. If $EDITOR and $VISUAL are both unset, tin will
uses the systems default editor (i.e. vi(1) on UNIX-systems).
AUTOSUBSCRIBE
A new group is checked against the list of patterns; if it
matches, tin subscribes the user to the group without further
query. See the section NEWSGROUP LISTS & WILDCARDS for an
explanation of the valid syntax. For example, setting
AUTOSUBSCRIBE=comp.os.unix.*,talk.*,!talk.politics.*
will automatically subscribe the user to all new groups in the
comp.os.unix hierarchy, and all talk groups other than talk.pol‐
itics groups (which will be queried for as usual).
AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE
Is handled like the AUTOSUBSCRIBE variable, but groups matching
the list are unsubscribed from without further query. For exam‐
ple, setting
AUTOUNSUBSCRIBE=alt.flame.*,u*,!uk.*
will automatically unsubscribe the user from all new alt.flame
groups and all groups starting with u (university groups) other
than UK groups (which will be queried for as usual).
SPAMTRAP
Set this variable to a list of comma-separated strings to be
warned if you are replying to an article by mail where the e-
mail address contains one of these strings. The matching is
case-insensitive. Example:
SPAMTRAP=spam,delete,remove
MAILCAPS
This variable can be used to override the default path search
for mailcap files.
METAMAIL
Set this variable to point to metamail(1) or a replacement (i.e.
metamutt), if set to "(internal)" tin uses it's own mime-parser.
MM_CHARSET
ISPELL Set this variable to point to ispell(1) or a replacement and
it's cmd-line options.
PGPOPTS
Define any additional options that you wish to pass to your PGP
program
PGPPATH
Over-ride the name of the PGP directory in $HOME/ that holds
your keys etc..
FILES
$HOME/.newsrc subscribed to newsgroups.
$HOME/.newsauth "nntpserver password [user]" pairs for NNTP servers
that require authorization.
$HOME/.tin/tinrc options.
$HOME/.tin/attributes
contains user specified group attributes.
$HOME/.tin/.news newsgroups index files directory.
$HOME/.tin/.mail mailgroups index files directory.
$HOME/.tin/.save saved newsgroups index files directory.
$HOME/.tin/active.mail
active file of user's mailgroups.
$HOME/.tin/active.save
active file of user's saved newsgroups.
$HOME/.tin/filter filtering file for article killing and auto-selec‐
tion.
$HOME/.tin/posted history of articles posted by user.
$HOME/.tin/newsrctable
"nntpserver newsrc shortname [...]" pairs to use
with ``-g'' command-line switch.
$HOME/.tin/.inputhistory
history of last used strings.
$HOME/.tin/postponed.articles
postponed articles from the `o' command, reuse via
``-o'' command-line switch or via CTRL-O from
within tin.
$HOME/.signature signature. If you are not using use_builtin_inews,
inews(1) automatically appends this file to your
article after composing it (you won't see your sig‐
nature in the $EDITOR). See also section SIGNA‐
TURES.
$HOME/.Sig signature. Same as above, but inews(1) won't
include it.
$HOME/.sigfixed fixed part of a randomly generated signature.
/usr/lib/news/tinrc Global configuration file.
/etc/tin/tin.defaults
Global configuration file.
/var/lib/news/active.times
Contains list of new newsgroups as they are added
to the news history file. This file is only
present on the news-server.
/var/lib/news/newsgroups
Short description of all newsgroups. This file is
only present on the news-server.
/var/lib/news/subscriptions
List of newsgroups to subscribe first time user to.
This file is only present on the news-server.
NOTES
Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package
pcre(3), which is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and
copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
BUGS
CNews NNTPd and noffle(1) (<= V1.0-pre5) can't handle simultaneous
GROUP commands. If you run into trouble with any of the mentioned
servers define NUM_SIMULTANEOUS_GROUP_COMMAND to 1 in active.c and
recompile. See also the TODO-file which comes with the source.
HISTORY
Based on the tass(1) newsreader that was developed by Rich Skrenta and
posted to alt.sources in March 1991. tass(1) itself was heavily influ‐
enced by NOTES which was developed at the University of Illinois by Ray
Essick and Rob Kolstad in 1982.
v1.0 PL0 - August 23rd 1991
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.0/
v1.1 PL0 - February 13th 1992
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.1/
v1.2 PL0 - May 25th 1993
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.2/
v1.3 PL0 (beta) - April 1995
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.3/
v1.3-unoff-beta - March 1996
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/prev-1.4/
v1.4.0 - November 13th 1999
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.4/
v1.4.1 - December 1st 1999
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.4/
v1.4.2 - February 5th 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.4/
v1.4.3 - May 2nd 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.4/
v1.4.4 - August 3rd 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.4/
v1.5.0 (beta) - December 1st 1999
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.1 (beta) - January 3rd 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.2 (beta) - February 6th 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.3 (beta) - February 21st 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.4 (beta) - May 23rd 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.5 (beta) - June 13th 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
v1.5.6 (beta) - August 3rd 2000
ftp.tin.org:/pub/news/clients/tin/v1.5/
CREDITS
Rich Skrenta
author of tass(1) v3.2 which this newsreader used as its base.
Bill Davidsen
author of envarg.c environment variable reading routine.
Mike Gleason
author of sigfile.c random signature generation routines.
Markus Kuhn
author of charset.c and iso2asc.txt ISO-8859-1 documentation.
Arnold Robbins
author of strftime.c date formatting routine.
Jim Robinson
co-author of original kill.c article kill and auto-selection
routines.
Rich Salz
author of wildmat.c pattern matching and parsdate.y date parsing
routines.
Dave Taylor
author of curses.c from the elm(1) mailreader.
Chris Thewalt
author of getline.c emacs(1) style editing routine.
Mark Tomlinson
for originally porting tin to the AmigaOS operating system.
Andreas Wrede
for porting tin to the OS/2 operating system.
Nigel Ellis & Piers Haken
for originally porting tin to the Windows/NT operating system.
Andrew Greer
for originally porting tin to the VAX/VMS operating system.
Steven Madsen
for adding pgp(1) (Pretty Good Privacy) support.
Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
for pcre(3) (Perl-compatible regular expression library).
Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com>
for snprintf(3) and vsnprintf(3) fallbacks.
I wish to thank the following people for supplying patches:
David Abbott, Earle Ake, Orbby S. Arka, Joachim Astel, Anton Aylward,
Mark Ayzenshteyn, Jens Chr. Bachem, George Baltz, Volker Barthelmann,
Kirk Bauer, Paul Bauwens, Dieter Becker, Wolfgang Behrens, Fabrice Bel‐
let, Greg Berigan, Enrik Berkhan, Juergen Bernau, Dan Berry, Michael
Bienia, David Binderman, Andrey Blochintsev, Chris Blum, Fokke de Boer,
Andreas Borchert, Mark Boucher, Robert Brady, Bill Brolik, Herman ten
Brugge, Martin Buck, Jeremy Buhler, Leila Burrell-Davis, Sean Casey,
Peter Castro, Troy Cauble, Andrey A. Chernov, Albert Chin-A-Young, Park
Chong-Dae, Tan Kwee Chuan, Boleslaw Ciesielski, Robert Claeson, Steven
Cogswell, Don Costello, Bryan Curnutt, Ned Danieley, Lars Dannenberg,
Chris Davies, John Davis, Borislav Deianov, Thomas E. Dickey, Olaf
Dietrich, Theo Van Dinter, Ralf Doeblitz, Bryan Dongray, Michael Dou‐
glass, Craig Durland, Bernd Eckenfels, Phil Edge, Kirk Edson, Nick
Efthymiou, Stefan Elf, L. Scott Emmons, Rob Engle, Olle Eriksson, Brent
Ermlick, Bernd Ernesti, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa, Jason Faultless,
Michael Faurot, Werner Fleck, John M. Flinchbaugh, Andy Gabor, Torsten
Gesang, Ruediger Geys, Callum Gibson, Mike Glendinning, Philippe Gou‐
jard, Dan Greenspan, Karlo Gross, Carl Hage, Paul Halsema, Ed Hanway,
Scott Hauck, Christian Haul, James Hawtin, Per Headland, Arnold Hen‐
driks, Daniel Hermans, Jose Herrero, Dave Hill, Tom Hite, Torsten Home‐
yer, Ulli Horlacher, Keith Howell, Tommy Hsieh, Shih-Kun Huang, Steve
Hunt, Jeff Hurwitt, Jeon Hyoung-Jo, Pieter Immelman, Jarkko Isokungas,
Patrick St. Jean, Hal Jespersen, Park Sang Jin, Robbin Johnson, Jarkko
Jormanainen, Nelson Kading, Geoffrey Keating, Karsten Keil, Charles S.
Kerr, Fritz Kleeman, Andreas Kies, Janne Kiviluoto, Tomasz Kloczko,
Dwarven Knight, Thomas Koenig, Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, Martin Kraemer,
Thomas Kroener, Florian Kuehnert, Bernd Kuemmerlen, Kris Kugel, Manoj
Kumar, Dawid Kuroczko, Yuri Kuzmenko, Olivier Lacroix, Geoff Lane, Alex
Lange, Alain Lasserre, Stanislav Latishko, Hannu Laurila, Vincent
Lefevre, Alexander Lehmann, Marty Leisner, Thomas Leitner, Hakan
Lennestal, Kevin Lentin, Chua Choon Leong, Chris Lewis, Andreas Ley,
David-Michael Lincke, Otto Lind, Richard Lloyd, Florian Lohoff, Rein‐
hard Luebke, Clifford Luke, Michael Lupp, David MacKenzie, Hugh Mahon,
Giuseppe De Marco, Scott Marovich, Dmitri A. Martynoff, Kazushi
Marukawa, William McBrine, Owen Medd, Philipp Mergenthaler, Arkadiusz
Miskiewicz, Soren Moller, Bruce Momjian, Sergio Morales, Michael Mor‐
rell, Klaus Mueller, Mike Muise, Udo Munk, John R. Myers, Daniel
Naber, Torsten Neumann, Dirk Nimmich, James Nugen, David E. O'Brien,
Michael O'Reilly, Oleg Ohotnikov, Ronald Orr, Julien Oster, Jeb Palmer,
Neil Parker, Tom Parry, Jim Patterson, Sven Paulus, Walter Pelissero,
Cameron Perkins, Colin Perkins, Eric Peterson, Tim Pierce, Bill
Poitras, Scott W. Powers, Wolfgang Prediger, GianPiero Puccioni, Thomas
Quinot, Stefan Rapp, Martin Reising, Kyle Rhorer, Ted Richards, Steve
Robbins, Ollivier Robert, Branden Robinson, Jim Robinson, Thomas
Roessler, Erik van Roode, Meelis Roos, Stephen Roseman, Roland Rosen‐
feld, Peter Van Rossem, Clifton Royston, Rich Salz, Gary Sanders, Nick‐
olay Saukh, John Sauter, Christopher Sawtell, Holger Schif, Volker
Schmidt, John Schmitz, Torsten Schneider, Stefan Scholl, Rainer Scholz,
Juergen Schroeder, Larry Schwimmer, Bart Sears, Karl-Olav Serrander,
Doug Sewell, Philip Shearer, Jungshik Shin, Sergey Shkonda, Andreas
Siegert, Mark Smith, Toomas Soome, Steve Spearman, Helmut Springer,
Cliff Stanford, Steve Starck, Jason Steiner, Ralf Stephan, Michael
Stenns, Helmrich Streitmatter, Hans Werner Strube, Dieter Stueken, Ed
Sznyter, Dean Takemori, Darrell Tangman, Derek Terveer, Carsten Theis,
Julian Thompson, David Tiller, Andry Timonin, Mark Tomlin, Michael
Traub, Adri Verhoef, Paul Vickers, Oliver B. Warzecha, Jason Wessel,
Cary Whitney, Henrik Wist, Greg Woods, Lloyd Wright, Jens Wuepper,
Billy Y., Hideaki Yoshfuji, Nickolai Zeldovich, Zbigniew Zych
AUTHOR
Iain Lea <iain@bricbrac.de>
MAINTAINER
Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>
SEE ALSOelm(1), emacs(1), inews(1), ispell(1), locale(1), locale(5), lp(1),
lpr(1), mbox(5), metamail(1), noffle(1), pcre(3), pgp(1), snprintf(3),
tass(1), unshar(1), uudecode(1), tin(5), vi(1), vsnprintf(3), wild‐
mat(3), xterm(1x), RFC977, RFC1036, RFC1524, RFC2045, RFC2046, RFC2047,
RFC2048, RFC2980
1.5.8 January 9th, 2001 tin(1)
