This is version 1.0 PL2 (patchlevel 2) of the tin newsreader.

Major improvements over tin 1.0 PL1 are the following:

o  -n option informs of any new newsgroups since last session.

o  -S option saves news to private news structure for later reading.

o  -U option forks a tin -u to update indexes while reading news in foregroud.

o  Goto first / last unread article within a group (selectable).

o  Resizes automatically if running under an Xterm.

o  Added regex pattern matching to kill articles.

o  Cancel a posted article from within tin.

o  Backups .newsrc to .oldnewsrc on starting tin.

For more bugs fixes, other changes & additions read the CHANGES & TODO files.

I am still looking for people to send me ideas/comments & bug reports.

And now for a bit of blurb from the original version...

Tin is a full screen threaded newsreader that uses the tass newsreader as 
its base. Tass was developed by Rich Skrenta (skrenta@blekko.commodore.com).
Tin can read news locally and also via an NNTP server (-r option). Tin 
contains more features than tass but they are still accessable to the
beginner and expert alike. I tried to follow the tass UI conventions as 
much as possible.

This is the only newsreader that I know of that threads on the Archive-name:
field as used in comp.sources.* groups as well as on the more normal Subject:
field. Before anyone comments on Subject: threading not being right and I 
should look at trn, I have and its threads are neat but I get more done with
tin than trn. It is especially good at saving and processing saved articles
& threads.

o Organizes articles by threads.  Displays a really nice article selection
  page.

o Group selection page makes it easy to scan newsgroups, subscribe,
  unsubscribe, reorder your .newsrc.

o If you've ever used tass/notes, this is the program for you.
  Tin looks a lot like tass, but has many improvements.

Newsreading style under tin tends to be different than with rn.  Instead of
plowing through each group reading everything unread, you may find yourself
reading fewer articles in more groups.  It's easier to skip about and only
read interesting threads with tin.

Tin keeps an index file for each group.  The first time you enter a group,
it will be a bit slow creating this file.  After that it will incrementally
update the index file and there should be little delay.

I may be off the net for a couple of months at the end of September, but
will be contactable at the following address:
    Iain J. Lea
    BrueckenStr. 12
    8500 Nuernberg 90
    Germany.
    Phone. +49-911-331963   (home)
    Phone. +49-911-895-3853 (work until Sep 30)
    Phone. +49-911-3089-407 (work from Oct 1)
    Email. iain@estevax.uucp (will only be reading mailbox weekly)

Built & used on the following machines
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	1)  Vax 8850 & Ultrix 4.1 (Developed on & most tested platform)
	3)  386 PC & Xenix 386
	2)  Vax 11/785 & BSD 4.3
	4)  386 PC & ATT SysVR4.0
	5)  386 PC & SCO SysVR3.2
	6)  386 PC & ISC SysVR3.2
	7)  ICL DRS6000 (sparc) & SysVR4.0 
	8)  Sun 3/4/IPC/Sparcstation & SunOS 4.0.3/4.1/4.1.1 
    9)  Intel303 & SysVR4
	10) DEC 5000 & Ultrix 4.1
	11) Sony News & SysVR4 / BSD 4.3
	12) Atari STe & Minix 1.5.10.3b
	13) Apricot VX/FT & SCO 3.2.2
	14) DIAB DS90 & D-NIX 5.3
   	
Building Tin
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	1)  type 'make' and a few system types will be displayed
	2)  edit Makefile if you want to add/change -D DEFINES
	3)  type 'make <system type>' to compile for your system
    4)  type 'make install' / 'make install_setuid' to install
    
	Note: the supplied Makefile will not run directly on BSD. It 
	requires a little work (Any takers to write a good Makefile?)

NB. NNTP (NetNews Transport Protocol RFC 977) is required if you 
    wish to read news remotely. It is a seperate package that is
    available from many FTP and mailserver sites. 

Credits
-------
I wish to give credit to the following people for the routines
that they have written and I have used in tin:

Rich Skrenta  - tass v3.2 that tin is based upon.
Syd Weinstein - curses.c is taken from the elm mailreader
Rich Salz     - wildmat regex pattern matching routine
Chris Smith   - multi-part uudecode routine 

I wish to thank the following people for bug reports/patchs/comments:

Klaus Arzig, Reiner Balling, Volker Beyer, Roger Binns, Georg Biehler,
Andreas Brosig, Peter Dressler, Gerhard Ermer, Joachim Feld,
Bernhard Gmelch, Viet Hoang, Joe Johnson, Cyrill Jung,
Karl-Koenig Koenigsson, Hans-Juergen Knopp, Bob Lukas, Clifford Luke,
Phillip Molloy, Toni Metz, Greg Miller, Klaus Neuberger, Otto Niesser,
Wolf Paul, Nickolay Saukh, Rich Salz, Fredy Schwatz, Bernd Schwerin,
Karl-Olav Serrander, Chris Smith, Cliff Stanford, Adri Verhoef,
Cary Whitney
