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Tin - Text-based news reader

'Tin' is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption, ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote NNTP server.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.tin.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/stable/tin-current.tar.gz
Latest versionftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/stable/tin-current.tar.gz
Version 1.6.2 (stable) released on 2003-09-10
Version 1.7.4 (devel) released on 2004-02-25
Licensed under a 3-clause BSD-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=tin
Support contacts

Help List<tin-users@tin.org> <tin-users-request@tin.org>
Developer List<tin-dev@tin.org>
Bug List<tin-bugs@tin.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-07-23
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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