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TIN: Reading Netnews on CUNIX |
TIN is one of the two unsupported programs which are available on the CUNIX Cluster for accessing Usenet netnews (the other is slrn). Tin is a single-purpose program which has a number of advanced news-handling features such as the ability to thread news articles (arrange responses adjacent to original postings). It is more powerful than Pine, and easier to use and quicker to learn than trn.
| Function | Command |
| Start program | $ tin Asks (y/n/q) for new newsgroups on startup. y/n subscribe or not to new newsgroups one by one q to subscribe to all the new newsgroups |
| Subscribe to a newsgroup |
g and then asks for a newsgroup name, or S subscribe to one or more groups, * wildcard possible, s resubscribe to a group that is marked ubsubscribed - toggle |
| Unsubscribe from a newsgroup | u unsubscribe from an individual group. U unsubscribe from one or more groups, * wildcard possible. |
| Read articles | Cycles through subscribed groups; or use g command as above to select a newsgroup Return to read article Space Next page of current article or next article/thread RETURNto JUMP to next thread Control-F Page Forward pages in both newsgroup and article modes Control-B Page Back |
| Mark an article 'read' | Automatic, when you read or k Mark article as read and move to next unread article. K Mark thread as read |
| Mark an article 'unread' | z Mark article as still unread Z Mark thread as still unread. r Toggle display to show all / only unread articles. |
| Post an article | w Post a new article. |
| Post a reply | While reading article, F to post a followup. f to post a followup including the text of the original. |
| Send a private reply via e-mail | While reading an article, R to e-mail a response r to e-mail including text |
| Save article | s to save article, thread or tagged articles in ~/News/ subdirectory. * Select article for saving, etc. |
| Get help | H at any point lists all commands. |
| Quit the program | q in article mode to get back to
newsgroup mode. q in newsgroup selector mode to quit program. |
| Kill file options |
Control-K Kill / Auto select current article |
| Search Options | aA Author forward (A=backward) search. |
| Others | | Pipe article/thread/hot/pattern/tagged articles into command |
The Usenet Info Center includes lists of newsgroups as well as other information.
The Pnews program (note the capital P) allows you to post to newsgroups from outside a newsreading program such as trn/Pine/slrn/tin.
More information on using Pnews is available if you type h for help.
- To start the program, type Pnews at the UNIX $ prompt. You will be asked to which newsgroup(s) you want to post, what distribution limitation to put on your posting, and what subject heading to put on the article.
- You will next be given a choice to continue or quit, and then Pnews will ask whether to include a prepared file.
- Either type a file name (if you have already created a file with an editor such as emacs or Pico), or press the Return key to open an editor allowing you to write your message or edit the headers.
- Once you are done, save the file and quit the editor. (If you are using the default editor emacs, you save and quit by pressing Control-X Control-C and answering y when asked if you want to save the file.
- Pnews will indicate whether the newsgroup(s) you specified were valid, and offer you a choice from: Check spelling, Send, Abort, Edit, or List?
- Use Send to post your article.
| Last update: 12 June 1997 |  |
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