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OLVW: What's the latest version of trn and where can I get it?



Trn 3.6 was released in November, 1994. One place to get it:

<URL:ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn/trn-3.6.tar.gz>

The patch to turn 3.5 into 3.6 is there as well:

<URL:ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/trn/trn-3.5-3.6.diff.gz>

There are .Z versions of the latest source available as well, and
mthreads resides in the same spot, if you need it.

Changes from trn 3.5 to trn 3.6:

   o	Added support for slow network connections by: (1) making use
	of the LIST ACTIVE <group.name> extension (if available),
	(2) beginning to display the received article as it is received
	from nntp, and (3) making the Pnews (posting) script query the
	group info more efficiently.
   o	Changed nntplist's command-line syntax slightly so that it is
        more orthogonal and so that it can pass an argument to LIST
	ACTIVE or LIST NEWSGROUPS.  ** If you use nntplist in your own
	scripts you'll need to switch them over to using the -o (output)
	option. **
   o	Added :p command to post from the selector.
   o	Added the Ctrl-E command to display the end of the current article.
   o	Enhanced the ':' command to operate on non-selected thread/articles
	(use ::cmd) or to operate on just the current thread (use :.cmd or
	::.cmd).
   o	Added a 't' modifier for the search command to start the search
	at the top of the group.  E.g.:  /subject string/t:+
	The default for searches in the selector has always been the top
	of the group, so this only affects the command while reading
	articles.
   o	Improved the catchup command to allow you to specify an article
	count to leave unread in the group.
   o	Added a new sort order for the article selector -- by 'n'umber.
   o	Enhanced the %( arg = regex ? : ) syntax to allow a % expansion
	in the regex portion of the comparison.
   o	Enhanced xref code to not go sub-optimal on C news's single-group
	xref lines.
   o	Added support for generic authentification (available in the
	reference NNTP 1.5.12 and INN 1.5).
   o	Fixed an elusive crash bug that would not let some people run
	trn from cron.
   o	Other misc. bug fixes.

For those wishing to take advantage of the slow-network enhancements,
look for nntp-1.5.12, ask Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net> for a
minor patch to INN 1.4, or wait for INN 1.5 (ask Rich Salz when that
will be).



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