Palmtop News Reader version 4.3

(Currently at Beta release 2)

Description

Palmtop News Reader (PNR) is an offline news & mail reader for the HP200LX Palmtop PC.

Latest version: 4.3 b2 (Released 11 August 2003).

If you don’t want to risk a beta version, the last official version (4.0) can be found here.

Rod Whitby (the previous author of PNR) is no longer able to maintain it, and has allowed me to maintain and (hopefully) improve it. You can find previous versions of PNR and other HPLX software by Rod on his home page.

The information contained in this document has been extracted from the PNR documentation. For a more complete reference please consult the PNR documentation which comes with the software.

PNR is capable of reading:

MMDF format files created by LXMTA (part of the LXTCP suite)
Standard UNIX mailbox format files
Bare format news files (which can be created via rn, tnr, tin, etc.).

News & mail is imported to PNR via an external program called PNRTI (Palmtop News Reader Threader & Indexer), which interprets, indexes, threads, and removes killed articles from the news & mail files.

PNR features:

Partially MIME compliant (you can send MIME attachments but need an external decoder to read them).
Mail and posts can be replied to, with full article quotation, and signature file support.
Alias support.
Basic kill file support.
Threaded.
Any message can be filed into a folder for storage or later use.
External files (e.g. articles saved by other news readers) can be imported and stored in a folder.
Replies can be re-edited before sending them (or even filed).
Proportional and fixed font support. Three fonts can be used which can be changed dynamically, allowing zooming.
Highly configurable.
The built-in MEMO editor can be used, or any DOS editor. EXM editors can also be used via telling PNR which scan codes to stuff into the keyboard buffer.
And it’s System Manager compliant!
And it’s FREE!

New features in version 4.3:

· The “kill” file has been replaced by an “act” file in which you can write rules or actions for deleting, moving, or writing incoming messages to an external file as they are being threaded by PNRTI. This allows sorting incoming mail messages into different “Inboxes”.

· When viewing a message in HTML format, the F8 button will allow hiding of most of the HTML tags and you can see the actual text message

· In the incoming news and mail folder view, messages for a given inbox which have been read, can be all deleted with one keypress.

New features in version 4.0:

· When composing messages or replying, you can attach binary files, which are automatically MIME encoded.

· When replying you can attach the original message as a MIME attachment

New features in version 3.6:

It's smaller!
You can use the HPLX's built in phone book to hold email addresses and "Smart Clip" them into PNR.
The system manager compliant (.exm) version and the DOS (.exe) version may use different editors
While running PNR, PNRTI and LXMTA "lock" each other out to prevent corrupting the incoming mail box.
Transfer of messages to saved folders has been improved.

Download the binaries for PNR version 4.3b2 (125KB)

Download the source code for PNR version 4.3b2 (114KB)

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