Again, it's time for an upgrade - VSoup1.2.8 is available!
VSoup1.2.8 is a multithreaded network mail and news client program for
OS/2 Warp with TCP/IP (or the Internet Access Kit) installed. It
transfers mail and news fetched from a POP3 server and NNTP server
respectively to packets in SOUP format. It can also send messages in
SOUP reply packets to NNTP / SMTP servers.
VSoup1.2.8 is especially designed to work with Yarn, but it is
probable that VSoup1.2.8 will work with most offline newsreaders which
expect SOUP as their input and output.
VSoup is a Souper (you can read this also as superb) replacement for
OS/2 users, much faster, some nice features compared to plain souper.
This time there was no 'public' beta testing, so one can see this as a
wide beta (remember W*rd x.y?).
Ok, no more kidding. Information only will follow:
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Where to download:
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/tcpip/news/vsoup128.zip
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/new/vsoup128.zip, later on it can be
found at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/internet/vsoup128.zip.
- ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/new/vsoup128.zip,
later on it can be found at
ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/suite/vsoup128.zip.
(yes, you have read correctly: '.../suite'!. I suppose, that it is
very likely that this will change in the near future. So check
00global.txt in '.../internet' or better Hobbes search engine, if
you cannot find VSoup).
And once again: leo & hobbes has won the race! They've already placed
VSoup128 at the correct location (downloaded yesterday - yes, not
every german is celebrating this day...). Cdrom got again the third
rank.
If you like to check the documentation, if 1.2.8 is worth downloading:
http://privat.swol.de/ReinhardGriech/vsoup.htm
There is also the vsoup128 executable available, named:
http://privat.swol.de/ReinhardGriech/vsoup.zip
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For information the history list from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 follows:
Version 1.2.8 (190497)
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- new features:
- Scoring introduced, see score file.
- obsolete features:
- The -l and -L command line options are obsoleted by scoring.
These options allowed length limitations of articles.
- bug fixes:
- Small bug in pop3.cc which led to undefined/sick error messages.
- other internal changes:
- In pop3.cc mails are now no longer blocking the areas-files
during mail reception. Instead incoming mail is copyied into a
temporary file. This is a preparation step to allow simultaneous
reception of mail/news.
As one can see, the list is very short. The real highlight is scoring
which replaces the (much more simple) killing feature (from the users
point of view). Let me hear, if you like it...
Hardy
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Hardy Griech, Ernetstr. 10/1, D-77933 Lahr
Also check: http://privat.swol.de/ReinhardGriech &
http://privat.swol.de/ReinhardGriech/vsoup.htm