Any releases downloaded from this website at this time are development releases. They are
not guaranteed to be stable. To reflect this, the code will use system variables beginning
"
If you have any problem with NewsAgent, then you should contact me. Please don't hassle Freedom2
support, send me an email!
Important notes regarding upgrading
<NAbeta... (instead of <INNews... or
<NewsAgent...).
This means you can totally disassociate the development version of NewsAgent with the copy
that you use normally.
Well, duh!
It has been done that way for a reason. The development versions are likely to be more
serious in what they affect - like maybe (one day) a new debatcher? How would you like it
if a tiny little screwup meant that the debatcher deleted all your locked news and kept
the stuff it should have deleted? I expect no such thing to ever occur, but I am
segregating the development version from the normal version to safeguard against anything
that may go wrong.
<NAbeta$...." so that you may keep the development versions seperate
from your normal version.
Additionally, this code 'belongs' to Freedom2 (formerly Argonet) to be packaged with the Voyager
software. So it should not be distributed further or used apart from Voyager. In practice, this
is not a problem as it relies on certain facilities built into Voyager...
Mini-FAQ
It is not recommended, but it is possible. Knock up an Obey file to set the NAbeta system
variables to point to the same locations the respective INNews and NewsAgent system
variables pointed to...
!RunImage
This shows you the group/subject/article listing, and keeps track of the status
of the messages (ie, when you lock a message in the viewer, the viewer asks the
list to lock it; likewise with the previous/next functions).
AutoRepair
If the debatcher (or whatever) finds a discrepency in the news indices, then it
will call the AutoRepair utility to fix it.
Debatcher
Debatches...
It also does the automatic expiry stuff.
EditMaster
The news article editor.
ViewAgent
The news article reader.
Wishlist
This is an interactive wishlist facility.
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Downloads
Versions RickDev/01 and RickDev/02 are the available development version
downloads, and they're rather out of date now.
You can obtain these from the 'full version downloads'...
| Component | Version | Compiled | Size | Released |
| !RunImage | RickDev/11 | 2002-06-09, 15:25h | 41279 (sqzd) | As upgrade for existing users [CHANGED] |
| AutoRepair | RickDev/05 | 2002-03-23, 00:00h | 17087 (sqzd) | As upgrade for existing users (unchanged, just recompiled) |
| Debatch | RickDev/05 | 2002-03-23, 00:00h | 19871 (sqzd) | As upgrade for existing users (unchanged, just recompiled) |
| EditMaster | RickDev/11 | 2002-06-09, 15:11h | 39583 (sqzd) | As upgrade for existing users [CHANGED] |
| ViewAgent | RickDev/10 | 2002-06-09, 14:25h | 43231 (sqzd) | As upgrade for existing users (unchanged, just recompiled) |
At the current time, the way to obtain the latest version is to download the Voyager update.
Please refer to the Versions file for a full list of changes.