Title: NEWSHOUND Author: Joseph Heenan Version: 1.16 Title From: Documentation Author From: Documentation Version From: Documentation Supplier: Joseph Heenan Date: 20/06/97 Keywords: Communications software Shareware: No Machine: Archimedes Operating system: RISCOS Memory requirements: Peripherals needed: Other s/ware needed: RISC OS 3.1 or later, Internet stack such as INTERNET (e008) or FREENET (d112) Directory: micros/arch/riscos/f035 Date mounted/updated: 17/07/97 File names: newshound.zip syslog017.arc toolbox.zip Unarchived files: 74 Unarchived size: 334 kbytes Omissions: See also: FREENEWS (d121), NEWSBASE (c088), MESSENGER (e184), NEWS (c097) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acquiring the package: Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help" file in micros/arch/riscos/tools for further info). Description: NewsHound is a newsfetcher, with the following features: * Does not use the NEWNEWS commands, so will work with more news servers than software that does. * Fully supports NewsBase 0.59 and Messenger 0.31. * Can fetch a list of all available news groups from the news server * Supports multiple news servers * Kill file, 'header-only' file * Fetches lists of new news groups * Works with ANT, Acornet, Voyager (when they're used with newsbase) Does not work with Termite. * All hostname lookups are done without freezing the computer NewsHound requires some toolbox modules, and Jon Ribben's SysLog, both of which are available as separate archives in the package directory.