Re: tlug: tin 1.4 with Japanese

[chisaka@example.com]

 Hi,

 rom: Ken Harada <kenhrd@example.com>
 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:01:02 +0900
 >
 >craigoda@example.com <craigoda@example.com> wrote on Thu, 21 May 1998 
 >16:18:26 +0900:-
 >> Hello,
 >> I was reading through the tin mailing list and I stumbled upon a person using
 >> an unpatched version of tin 1.4 with Chinese.  This made me think that perhaps
 >> it can support Japanese with he proper configuration flags at compile time.
 >> Has anyone gotten unpatched tin newsreader to display Japanese properly?
 >
 >Though I have not used, I found a "ktin1.4" package in PJE.  Isn't it a
 >Kanji-nized tin?

 Yes, you can get information from package.

 ( % rpm -qip ktin-1.4@example.com )
 |
 | Name        : ktin                        Distribution: PJE0.1
 | Version     : 1.4@example.com                           Vendor: PJER
[snip]
 | Description :
 | ktin
 | 漢字対応版 tin (threaded Netnews reader)で
 | す。元祖高機能ニュースリーダです。rtin を実
 | 行すると NNTP 版として動作します。詳しくは
 | /usr/doc/ktin を御覧下さい。
 | 
 | ktin
 | The Japanese version of tin (threaded
 | Netnews reader), a highly functional news
 | reader.  Running rtin allows you to use the
 | NNTP version.  Refer to /usr/doc/ktin for
 | details.


 cheers,
 Fumio

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