BSD Ports

news/knews 1.0b.1_15 FreeBSD

Threaded NNTP newsreader for X11

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
GPLv2
Categories
news
Package size
232.6 KiB, 584.6 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
FreeBSDnews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDnews/knews1.0nb18none known-[email protected]-
DragonFlynews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestnone known-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnews/knews1.0b.1_15 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install knews

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/news/knews/ && make install clean

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

RUN_DEPENDS=	knews>0:news/knews

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.0b.1_151.0b.1_151.0b.1_131.0b.1_151.0b.1_15
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15n/a1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15
FreeBSD:15:latest1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15n/a1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.0b.1_151.0b.1_15n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

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.

Library 2

Runtime 1

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 22
Run dependencies 17

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES
imake jpeg xorg
Service scripts
none

Files

Manual pages 1
  • knews(1)
pkg-plist 3
  • bin/knews
  • lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews
  • share/man/man1/knews.1.gz
distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
knews-1.0b.1.tar.gz392225ee79caee70a44c23e54a2d9c9c97c58c4a26d5e947ef1a76fb3b0bed7792bfe6
Master sites 1
  • LOCAL/dinoex

Commit history 0

No commits in the history this site was built from.