Re: ANNOUNCE: PC Yarn v0.91 - SOUP offline reader for MS-DOS and OS/2

James Huang (james@sn.no)
Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:51:36 +0100

In article <w+gxxc6r3PAY091yn@io.org>, cthuang@io.org (Chin Huang) wrote:

> PC Yarn is a suite of programs used to store and read USENET news and
> mail offline. The supported platforms are MS-DOS character mode, OS/2
> character mode, and Windows 95 console mode.
>
> The software is available from http://www.vex.net/yarn/.

Looks like another trip to the treasure chest. <g>

> Changes:
>
> - Now displays a real thread tree in the article selection list.

Does the "Shift-P" key move the reader back up the thread or back to the
last read message/article?

> - The 'O' command at the newsgroup selection level now marks all
> articles in the newsgroup as read when it saves the articles to a
> folder.

This could be dangerous as I have experienced that having too many
messages saved into a folder can cause Yarn to die with a "Memory"
(sorry as i cannot remember the actual text) message.

> - Fix: Score rules that look for a regular expression in a specific
> header now search in the header value only.
>
> - Fix: Character set conversion in the header was incorrect when
> editing a message.

This would be a boon as I have read many articles in local newsgroups
where QP Latin-1 chars are used in the headers (against the RFCs from
what I have heard) sent from Netscrape and Eudora.

Does the new version translate the QP in headers too?

Could I _beg_ for the inclusion of a switch which sets the right margin
for quoted text and Yarn wraps at that point?

Example: Quote-wrap = 73
with the result

> > > This is text from the first article in the thread which Yarn wraps
> > > at the right margin which has been set to 73 chars.
> > The quote from the second article which has 2 quote-marks and which
> > wraps at 73 chars as well.
> The final quote from the article read, just to show how I would like
> to see wrapping done by Yarn.

The follow-up text to the above, blah blah blah. <g>

What do you think, Chin? Any opinions from other Yarn users?

Regards,

James