VMS NEWS                  Release 5.6                11-Nov-1988
Author  : Geoff Huston
Address : Computer Services Centre
          Australian National University
          G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra City, A.C.T.  2601
          AUSTRALIA

          (062)493385

    ACSnet,CSNET:	gih900@csc.anu.oz
    INTERNET: gih900%csc.anu.oz@uunet.uu.net
    UUCP: {uunet,ubc-cs,nttlab,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!csc.anu.oz!gih900
    VAX_PSI: PSI%50526244003211::gih900

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[ Editor's note:
VMS NEWS is an implementation of USENET NEWS for VMS with many extensions.
This version is getting much closer to VAX NOTES in user interface and has
many extensions and goodies thrown in. Given a USENET news feed, this
software allows a VMS site full participation in USENET news.
  The VMSNET directory tree of this tape contains test versions of
software which can allow VMS sites to join the USENET, and should also
be examined by those interested in VMS NEWS. ]

As usual I have not had enough time to fully set up this release...

I have added a number of new commands, and changed some existing commands in
various ways. The time constraints have implied that I have not been able to
bring the documentation fully up to match the code -- although the information
in the documentation is accurate, the problems are that of omission, and there
are a number of commands and facilities supported in the code which are not
adequately documented.

The changes that will impact existing users of NEWS:

USER CHANGES:

    The default keypad has changed.... (sorry bout this) 

        The keypad functions on the second row (KP7 KP8 KP9 and KP-)
        are now invoked by the sequence PF1, KP7  PF1, KP8 and so on

        The keypad functions on the third row (KP4 KP5 KP6 KP,)
        have been moved up to the second row.

        KP5 is now "UP"
        KP2 is now "DOWN"

    The arrow keys are user settable between the VMS line edit function
    and UP/DOWN commands. The default on startup is UP/DOWN for SCREEN
    mode, and can be set to VMS line edit mode by the command:
    "SET LINE". "SET NOLINE" sets UP/DOWN functions to the arrow keys.

    Broadcast trapping is now user selectable by the commands:
    "SET BROADCAST_TRAPPING" and "SET NOBROADCAST_TRAPPING". The startup
    value is trapping enabled.

MODERATOR CHANGES:

    NEWS allows a newsgroup moderator to use the command:
        ADD FILE/MOD filespec
    to add items into the NEWS system. The items are checked to ensure
    that the items will be posted into the newsgroup which is moderated
    by this user.

MANAGER CHANGES:


    The most visible change is that of two name changes:

        "ADD" is changed to "ADD FILE"

        "CREATE" is changed to "CREATE NEWSGROUP"
        
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See the NEWS license document in [.news.news_dist]aaareadme.1st
- Sites who have a copy of NEWS are free to further distribute the software.