Turn 1.0, the world's premiere newsreader
[This is unsupported software; release is through the freeware CD.]
What is Turn?
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Turn turns your Silicon Graphics workstation into the world's greatest
newsreading machine. Turn is a multi-threaded, threading newsreader.
(That is, it has multiple light-weight processes, and it groups
articles together in trees based on the References field in the
article's header.) Turn has some very special features to help you keep
up with more news than ever before.
o A powerful scoring system. Threads and authors can be marked as
important or junk (to be ignored). Newsgroups containing important
threads with unread articles and the articles themselves are
highlighted to draw your attention to them.
o The very powerful command Catch up on old, unimportant threads in
newsgroup can be used in groups with lots of noise and little
content. This command was the original motivation for writing turn.
It causes every article in the selected newsgroup to be marked as
read unless that article is either:
- In a thread which has been marked important,
- By an author who has been marked important, or
- In a thread which has only unread articles (i.e., has never been seen
before).
In high noise newsgroups, mark the few interesting threads as
important. Everytime you revisit the newsgroup, use this command.
Only threads that you marked important and threads you haven't seen
before will remain.
o Using your Silicon Graphics workstation's digital media tools, the vast
majority of the pictures, movies and sounds contained in articles can
be displayed with a single keystroke. You most commonly find such
articles in the various alt.binaries newsgroups. You also find them in
Clarinet's clari.* newsgroups. When you see an article with an encoded
picture, movie or sound, you can usually view it by selecting Display
picture or sound (accelerator Alt-P) from the Article menu
o URL's for the World Wide Web appearing in article text are
automatically highlighted. A single click brings up that document in
your favourite web browser. User's love this feature
o Software distributions in the form "{inst,swmgr} -f foo" appearing in
article text are automatically highlighted. A single click brings up
the SoftwareManager to install that distribution.
Throw out xrn. Give up on tin. Check out turn.
What Users Are Saying.
"Turn is a fantastic newsreader" - Ivan Bach
"Turn has made my life worth living" - Anon
"turn is good..netscape is okay" - Jon Madison
"Thank you for a quality piece of software." - James Putnam
How Do I Install It?
ftp the tar file. untar it in a directory somewhere called, say, "turn" then
run inst or swmgr. See http://reality.sgi.com/turn/install-outside.html
for installation instructions. Here's the digest:
su
inst -f turn
inst> go
inst> quit
exit
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/freeware/bin
setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/usr/freeware/catman:/usr/freeware/man
rehash
Do not forget to set the above paths.
See http://reality.sgi.com/turn for complete information about turn.
Please mail bug reports to me.
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From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
http://Reality.sgi.com/employees/msc
"Who's Bill Atkinson?" -- Jim Clark, October 1994
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