MICE NewsReader
Version 1.42 beta 5 (PowerPC build)
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Colin Munro

Contents of this file
>What is this software?
>PowerPC warning
>Registration
>Instructions
>Bugs and comments
>Copyright

What is this software?
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This software is for reading NNTP news, for example Usenet. It allows you to read the newsgroups offline, as well as replying.

PowerPC warning
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This software was built using the x86 version of BeOS and the PowerPC cross-compilers. I have been unable to test it, and so it may contain bugs which were not present in the x86 version, or it may not function at all. If you do find a bug, please send the usual debug information (as described in the HTML manual) to bugs@mice.virtualave.net, where they will attempt to be fixed.

Donations of Apple Macintosh computers for testing purposes are welcomed :)

Registration
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This software is shareware. If you use it for over 30 days, you must register. To register, simply go to the online ordering site at http://order.kagi.com/?XTN for credit card ordering. After your registration has been processed, you will be sent an email containing your registered user name and serial number. Simply enter these into the Registration panel in the Options window, and follow the instructions. After this is done, the program will be fully registered. You will be emailled updates to the program, or download new versions from http://mice.virtualave.net.

Instructions
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Please now see the HTML manual file for more information!

The program is fairly simple to operate. The 3 windows allow you to control the software, view the messages in a group in a threaded way and read a message. There are 3 menus:
File
-New Post : This will allow you to make a new post to any newsgroup on the server.
-Subscribe to Groups : Select the newsgroups you want to download and read
-Exit : Leave the program
Online
-Download New Group List : This downloads the names of any new groups which may have been added to the server since you last checked (or downloads the entire list if no newsgroup database is found)
-Send and recieve messages : This sends any posts you have written, as well as downloading all the newest posts from the NNTP server for you to read later
-Options : This allows you to configure the software, including setting the NNTP server, setting up how you want to read messages, how you'll reply, and allows you to register the software.
Help
-About : Shows copyright and registration information

The software also has 7 buttons on the main window. The first of these allows you to select which group you are currently viewing. The next 6:
-New Post : As the New Post command on the File menu, this creates a new post for you
-Reply : This allows you to write and send a follow-up post to an article in the group
-Attachments : This lists the attachments found on the selected article
-ROT13 : ROT13 the message
-Edit : Edit a message that has been saved for editing at a later date
-Delete : Delete a message that was saved

Bugs and comments
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If you find any bugs or have any comments on this software, please send an email to comments@mice.virtualave.net. All comments welcome!

-Known bugs: The program currently cannot understand MIME attachments. This will be addressed soon, hopefully. The main window is locked while the program communicates with the NNTP server - this will be multi-threaded at somepoint.

Copyright
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The software and this document are Copyright (C) 2000 Colin Munro. The software, and all accompanying files, are governed by the license in the file license.txt
This software may use the zlib general purpose compression library, version 1.1.3, July 9th 1998, Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.

http://mice.virtualave.net
