This is version TIN 1.3 PL0 BETA 950726 of TIN - an NNTP (with AmiTCP) and
local newsreader. While the word "BETA" is still in the name, the code is
as stable (probably more so) than any previous version of TIN that has
been released for the Amiga. Some bugs have been fixed relative to the
last release of TIN 1.3, but perhaps the most important reason for making
this release is the significant speed increase when entering and indexing
newsgroups.

The binary distributed here is compiled with optimization, and has no
debug information in it. I can often track down bugs given a good bug
report, but if you would like to track down a bug which you find, the
source code is available at ftp://ftp.scn.de/news/readers/tin. The changes
between the standard release of TIN and this version are in the file
tin950726.diff. An AS225 version of TIN can also be compiled with this
source.

The changes since the last TIN release are too many to mention here, see
the CHANGES for a complete list of changes to the source.

tin.lsm      Info on where to get TIN source code (1.3 not yet available).
readme.first This file.
tin.guide    Amigaguide file of manpage and installation notes.
actived      An executable for creating UULIB:active.
tin.exe      The TIN executable itself.
CHANGES      Changes since TIN 1.3PL0 950131.
intro.txt    Paul Kramer's TIN introduction. (Not amiga specific).

To those who haven't got amigaguide, you will be able to read this file
easily enough with any text reader, you just can't use the hot links :(.

Note that you do not need actived for reading news via NNTP.
Note also that tin.exe is pure (even if the pure bit gets lost in the
archive!). You may make it resident if you wish.

Note that well this executable works well on a BBS, the accompanying tind
program has not been built (or tested). Nor are any of the DLG scripts
present in this archive. A sysop who is familiar with TIN may still use
this if they try hard enough (hint: A fake user subscribed to all your
groups running "tin.exe -u" will update all your .overview files). If
using NNTP, the server provides the .overview files. I would advise that
you remove users old .tin/tinrc files.

- Mark Tomlinson
(mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz)

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[generic]                 8291   13080  63.4% -lh5- 30ab Aug  1  1995 actived
[generic]                 2444    6433  38.0% -lh5- 9e7a Aug  5  1995 changes
[generic]                10776   51608  20.9% -lh5- d5fc Nov 15  1994 intro.txt
[generic]                 1163    2233  52.1% -lh5- c181 Aug  5  1995 readme.first
[generic]               121116  219496  55.2% -lh5- e8d6 Aug  5  1995 tin.exe
[generic]                25789   80794  31.9% -lh5- 1e73 Aug  5  1995 tin.guide
[generic]                  600    1306  45.9% -lh5- ca12 Jan 31  1995 tin.lsm
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