Short: TIN 1.3 PL0 Beta 950726. UUCP/NNTP Newsreader Author: iain@scn.de (Iain Lea), Amiga-Port by Mark Tomlinson and Reinhard Luebke Uploader: mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz (Mark Tomlinson) Type: comm/news Replaces: comm/news/tin130beta* This is version TIN 1.3 PL0 BETA 950726 of TIN - an NNTP (with AmiTCP) and local newsreader. While the word "BETA" is still in the name, the code is as stable (probably more so) than any previous version of TIN that has been released for the Amiga. Some bugs have been fixed relative to the last release of TIN 1.3, but perhaps the most important reason for making this release is the significant speed increase when entering and indexing newsgroups. The binary distributed here is compiled with optimization, and has no debug information in it. I can often track down bugs given a good bug report, but if you would like to track down a bug which you find, the source code is available at ftp://ftp.scn.de/news/readers/tin. The changes between the standard release of TIN and this version are in the file tin950726.diff. An AS225 version of TIN can also be compiled with this source. The changes since the last TIN release are too many to mention here, see the CHANGES for a complete list of changes to the source. tin.lsm Info on where to get TIN source code (1.3 not yet available). readme.first This file. tin.guide Amigaguide file of manpage and installation notes. actived An executable for creating UULIB:active. tin.exe The TIN executable itself. CHANGES Changes since TIN 1.3PL0 950131. intro.txt Paul Kramer's TIN introduction. (Not amiga specific). To those who haven't got amigaguide, you will be able to read this file easily enough with any text reader, you just can't use the hot links :(. Note that you do not need actived for reading news via NNTP. Note also that tin.exe is pure (even if the pure bit gets lost in the archive!). You may make it resident if you wish. Note that well this executable works well on a BBS, the accompanying tind program has not been built (or tested). Nor are any of the DLG scripts present in this archive. A sysop who is familiar with TIN may still use this if they try hard enough (hint: A fake user subscribed to all your groups running "tin.exe -u" will update all your .overview files). If using NNTP, the server provides the .overview files. I would advise that you remove users old .tin/tinrc files. - Mark Tomlinson (mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz) ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 73235 15544 78.7% 05-Aug-95 14:06:50 950726.diff 13080 8291 36.6% 01-Aug-95 10:25:42 actived 6433 2444 62.0% 05-Aug-95 14:39:26 CHANGES 51608 10776 79.1% 15-Nov-94 06:17:06 intro.txt 2233 1163 47.9% 05-Aug-95 15:07:08 readme.first 219496 121116 44.8% 05-Aug-95 15:39:38 tin.exe 80794 25789 68.0% 05-Aug-95 14:44:30 tin.guide 1306 600 54.0% 31-Jan-95 19:41:20 tin.lsm -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 448185 185723 58.5% 05-Aug-95 12:52:06 8 files