Port details on branch 2022Q3 |
- knews Threaded NNTP newsreader for X11
- 1.0b.1_15 news =7 1.0b.1_14Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
- Maintainer: dinoex@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: unknown
- Last Update: 2024-02-04 19:13:55
- Commit Hash: e427ab1
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- License: GPLv2
- Description:
- Knews is a threaded newsreader with an X Window interface that uses NNTP
to get news. Threads are displayed in a graphical tree. Full support for
reading MIME articles, except message/partial.
o Background threading of newsgroups
o Doesn't have to read the active file or group descriptions on startup
o A mechansim for reading the spool directory
o Kill file support with color blobs
o Regular expression searching in articles and the newsgroup list
o XPAT searching
o Can use different fonts and colors for quoted text and headers in articles
o Lots of action procedures that can be tied to keys.
o Supports multiple nntp servers
o Tagging of articles and saving or piping them in order
o Uudecode function. Not perfect, but handles most cases
o article text widget is able to display wide-character fonts
o article tree has a 'vertical' layout by popular demand
o experimental: Decoding of 16 bit encoded charsets
o Mailcap file support
o save thread data between sessions
o article prefetch cache and 'trailing' cache
o Less restrictive locking of the interface
o Message-id lookup of articles
LICENSE: GLP2 or later
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/news/knews/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install news/knews
- pkg install knews
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: knews
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- SHA256 (knews-1.0b.1.tar.gz) = ee79caee70a44c23e54a2d9c9c97c58c4a26d5e947ef1a76fb3b0bed7792bfe6
SIZE (knews-1.0b.1.tar.gz) = 392225
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- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- imake : devel/imake
- tradcpp : devel/tradcpp
- xmu.pc : x11-toolkits/libXmu
- xpm.pc : x11/libXpm
- xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
- sm.pc : x11/libSM
- ice.pc : x11/libICE
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- Runtime dependencies:
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- newsp : print/mp-letter
- xmu.pc : x11-toolkits/libXmu
- xpm.pc : x11/libXpm
- xt.pc : x11-toolkits/libXt
- sm.pc : x11/libSM
- ice.pc : x11/libICE
- xext.pc : x11/libXext
- x11.pc : x11/libX11
- Library dependencies:
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- libpng.so : graphics/png
- libcompface.so : mail/faces
- libjpeg.so : graphics/jpeg-turbo
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
- No options to configure
- Options name:
- news_knews
- USES:
- imake jpeg xorg
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
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