news/knews 1.0b.1_15 DragonFly
Threaded NNTP newsreader for X11
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- License
- GPLv2
- Categories
- news
- Package size
- 199.3 KiB, 524.2 KiB installed
Description
Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for reading MIME articles, except message/partial. o Background threading of newsgroups o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup o A mechansim for reading the spool directory o Kill file support with color blobs o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list o XPAT searching o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys. o Supports multiple nntp servers o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets o Mailcap file support o save thread data between sessions o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache o Less restrictive locking of the interface o Message-id lookup of articles
LICENSE: GLP2 or later
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 1.0b.1, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | news/knews | 1.0b.1_15 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | news/knews | 1.0b.1_15 newest | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| NetBSD | news/knews | 1.0nb18 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | news/knews | 1.0b.1_15 newest | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install knews
From DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/news/knews && make install clean
Dependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
Run dependencies 11
No port depends on this one.