BSD Ports

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.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDnews/knews1.0nb18none known-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestno data-[email protected]-

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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.