Date:  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:58:17 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Pronews/2 1.56 released


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From: "Trevor Hemsley" <trevor-hemsleydDESPAM at DESPAMdsl.pipex.com> 


I'm pleased to announce the release of Pronews/2 v1.56

Pronews/2 is a multithreaded NNTP Newsreader program for OS/2. This
release completely reworks the character set and codepage support code
within Pronews/2 and allows support for new character sets to be added
reasonably easily. 

If you are upgrading from a release prior to 1.54 then you are strongly
urged to backup your existing filter files as the files have a different
on-disk format from 1.54 onwards. Failure to backup files *.FLT in
\pronews and \pronews\headers will mean it will be impossible to use your
filters if you should need to revert to a release prior to 1.54. You
should also read the readme.txt file installed in the \pronews directory
as this covers changes and new features from prior releases as well as
tips for making Pronews/2 quicker.

You can find Pronews/2 1.56 on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming (later
to be ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader) as
pn2v156.zip.
 
Pronews/2 is shareware and all profits from its sale are donated to the
charity Save the Children.

New features and important changes
==================================
Pronews/2 1.56 adds support for posting and reading articles in UTF-8.
Existing article bodies encoded in UTF-8 should appear correctly in 1.56
but existing headers containing UTF-8 within subject or composer fields
will require a group reload in order to be translated correctly.

A new file, pronews.env, can be used to set Pronews specific
environment variables rather than having to code them in config.sys. A
sample version of pronews.env is supplied as sample.env and will need to
be copied/renamed before it is used.

New environment variable, PNLOGDIR, can be used to specify a directory
where Pronews should keep its log files.

Pronews will now base64 encode any subject or composer name that contains
non-ASCII characters if base64 encoding is specified on the Codepage tab
in the group or global settings notebooks.

There are 3 new files added to the \pronews directory with this release.
All have the extension *.pn and are required for Pronews/2 1.56 to
operate. All have to do with the new charset/codepage support. Pronews/2
1.56 will refuse to start if any of these files are missing.






-- 
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com



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