BSD Ports

news/trn 3.6 MidnightBSD

Threaded Read News newsreader

System
MidnightBSD
Repository
mports
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
other
Categories
news

Description

Trn is Threaded RN -- a newsreader that uses an article's references to order the discussions in a very natural, reply-ordered sequence called threads. Having the replies associated with their parent articles not only makes following the discussion easier, but also makes it easy to back- track and (re-)read a specific discussion from the beginning. Trn also has a visual representation of the current thread in the upper right corner of the header, which will give you a feel for how the discussion is going and how the current article is related to the last one you read.

In addition, a thread selector makes it easy to browse through a large group looking for interesting articles. You can even browse through the articles you've already read and select the one(s) you wish to read again. Other nice features include the extract commands for the source and binary groups, thread-oriented kill directives, a better newgroup finding strategy, and lots more. See the file NEW for a list of the things that are new to trn 3.0 from previous versions.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 4.0.77, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
MidnightBSDnews/trn3.6no data-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnews/trn3.6_1none known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDnews/trn4.0.77p3 newestno data-Marc Espie <[email protected]>-
DragonFlynews/trn3.6_1none known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDnews/trn3.6_1no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnews/trn3.6_1no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

mport install trn

From mports:

cd /usr/mports/news/trn && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	trn>0:news/trn

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

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 1

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES
ncurses
Service scripts
none
Conflicts with
s-news trn4

Files

Manual pages 5
  • Pnews(1)
  • Rnmail(1)
  • newsetup(1)
  • newsgroups(1)
  • trn(1)
pkg-plist 20
  • bin/Pnews
  • bin/Rnmail
  • bin/newsetup
  • bin/newsgroups
  • bin/nntplist
  • bin/trn
  • bin/trn-artchk
  • lib/trn/INIT
  • lib/trn/Pnews.header
  • lib/trn/Speller
  • lib/trn/filexp
  • lib/trn/makedir
  • lib/trn/mbox.saver
  • lib/trn/newsnews
  • lib/trn/norm.saver
  • share/man/man1/trn.1.gz
  • share/man/man1/Pnews.1.gz
  • share/man/man1/Rnmail.1.gz
  • share/man/man1/newsetup.1.gz
  • share/man/man1/newsgroups.1.gz
distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
trn-3.6.tar.gz325115347d25066670bfc278c831bc8e07ce9f11db55e4a1938540f9a8113ae9ed6545
Master sites 2
  • ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn/
  • ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/news/trn/