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Introduction
News Pad is NetNews (NNTP) client that
runs on PalmPilot Professional and PalmIII (PalmOS2.0 or
later).
News Pad can be also offline NetNews viewer.
You can get NetNews articles just with PalmPilot
Pro/PalmIII and its modem!
You can use the latest version until Sep/01/1999.
What's
New
- Jul/12/99
- - No more expiration. You can use this
version freely. (Ver0.12c)
- Feb/16/99
- - Just extend a term of expiration.
(Ver0.12b)
- July/30/98
- - Just extend a term of expiration.
(Ver0.12a)
- June/14/98
- Released News Pad Ver0.12.
- - Decode MIME header.
- - Display if the article body is
downloaded or not.
- - New dialog when disconnect.
- - Some bugs are fixed.
- June/9/98
- Released News Pad Ver0.11.
- - English version and Japanese version
are unified.
- - Network timeout is changed 30min to
2min.
- - Display current download status
- - Alarm function when downloaded
- - Added more error dialogs when header
downloaded
- - App preferences are unsaved.
- June/4/98
- Released News Pad Ver0.1J. This is
japanese version. You need J-OS to use
this.
- June/3/98
- Released News Pad Ver.0.1 for PalmPilot
Professional. An article header or body is
limited just 4Kbyte. More than 4Kbyte article is
not displayed. Current version can not post
article to server and can not sort by thread.
(Future version will be supported these.)
Download
News Pad Ver0.12c for PalmPilot
Professional(.zip)
Installation and Setup
Download News Pad ( News
Pad Ver0.12c for PalmPilot Professional (.zip))
and extract the archive.
Install NewsPad.prc on your PalmPilot
Professional.
Set up your Network and Modem (if you have not
done yet.).
(Select `Modem Prefs' and `Network Prefs' in
`Options' menu.)
Select News Pad from launcher on your PalmPilot
Professional.
Select Menu Options-NNTP Prefs and edit
the properties (you have only to enter Server
field and Port field on this NNTP Prefs dialog.
If you want alarm when downloaded, check
"Alarm when downloaded")
Select Menu Group-Subscribe News Group and
enter your favorite news group name. You can use
this menu several times and registor some news
groups (max: 5 news groups).
Connect your PalmPilot Professional with your
modem.
Select Menu Record-Connect. Now you can
connect to NNTP server.
Push popup trigger and select a news group you
want to download.
Select Menu Record-Download Article Headers
and push ok button. Then input how many articles
you want to download and push ok button.
After a few minutes silence, complete dialog may
be displayed.
Next, Select Menu Record-Download Articles
and push ok button.
Once again after a few minutes silence, complete
dialog may be displayed.
Now you can read articles for this news group.
Select Open square button and select an article
if you want to read. Or select menu Record-Disconnect
if you logout of network.
FAQ
- How can I delete some articles?
Tap Mark squere button. This is "Mark"
mode.
You can mark any articles as deleted ([D]) or
undeleted ([- ] or [ ]) on this mode.
If you want to delete some articles, mark
articles as deleted([D]) and select menu Record-Purge
Deleted.
Mark [- ] means that the article body is already
downloaded.
Mark [ ] means that the article body is not
downloaded yet.
- How long does it take to download
articles?
For example, it takes 3-6 minutes to
downloard 200 articles (or article headers).
- How is memory usage?
For example, I downloaded 300 articles on
alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, they needed about
300kbytes. (So in this case,1Kbytes/one-article)
It depends on articles and headers size.
- Why can not I download article body
properly?
I found some servers have bugs. When NewsPad
downloads article body, it specifys Message-ID.
Message-ID is allocated to each mail. It is
unique number to specify each mail all over
the world.
Some servers can not reconize Message-ID for
client to request article body.
So you should change news server or request the
administrator for server version-up if you can
not download proper article body.
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