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Program
description to read News |
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Here i will
describe the newsreader program "Forte
Agent". It is a very good newsreader for
reading news online or offline, and it is very
stable working. You can use this program for
multiple users and servers.
1.
Installation
2. Program
description
1. Installation:
When you install Forte Agent, you will see
following windows:
First Window:
New install or upgrade (New is activated)
Press "Next"
Next window:
Select directory
If you do not want to change the proposed
directory
Press "Next"
Next window:
Select character sets
Press "Next"
Next window:
Create shortcarts (yes is activated)
Press "Next"
Next window:
Select start menue folder
If you do not want to change
Press "Next"
Next window:
Ready for install
Press "Next"
Now begins the installation of Forte Agent.
Next window:
Installation complete!
Agent has been successfully installed
Do you want to run Agent now (is activated)
Press "Finish"
2. Program description:
Configure Agent:
If you start Agent first time, you will see a
window "Agent Setup"  in front of the window of Agent. Now you
must fill in the fields "News (NNTP)
Server" (that's the name of the server you
want to get the newsgroups, for example:
news.uncensored-news.com) and the field
"Mail (SMTP) Server" (that is the name
of the sever you can send your mails, for
example: mail.gmx.net). If you do not fill in
this fields, Agent will not work. Of course you
can make modification later. You can fill in the
field "Email address" too, but you need
not. Now you can press "OK".
Now you see a window Agent want to go online and get a list
of newsgroups. Here press first "NO",
because you need to configure Agent first.
In the Menue bar go to "Options",
select "User and System Profile" , it opens a window, select the tab
"Dial-Up". Click into the small field
"Open dial-up connection before going
online", so it is activated. In the dropdown
menue "Connection" select that
connection, you want, Agent can go online .
I recommend to deactivate "Prompt before
disconnecting", so Agent can close the
connection automatic, if he ended his work.
Now select the tab "User" .
If you want to get Newsgroups from a commercial
newsserver, activate "Login with a username
and password", delete "Gast" and
type in your username. If you do not want to type
your password if Agent connect to the newsserver,
you need to activate "Remember Password
between sessions", and fill in your
password. Now press "OK".
Download newsgroups list:
In the menue bar go to "Online" and
select "Refresh Groups List..." .
In the window you see now , you can press "Ok", because
till now there are no groups. Now Agent downloads
a list of the groups. That needs some time. In
the left lower corner of Agent-window you can
see, how far Agent is . Do not wonder that Agent will not go
offline directly after he got all groups. The
default value is 300 seconds after no activity.
Subscription of newsgroups:
You can search manual for those newsgroups, you
are interested, but there is an easier way. Click
into the window where you see the newsgroups, so
the window is active. Go to Menue
"Edit" and select "Find..." . A window opens and you can type in the
name of the newsgroup. But you can type in also
only one word. For example you want to see all
groups with the word gay in the group name. Type
"gay" or in to the field, press
"Find First". Now you can see the first
group, to see the next group press
"F3". So continue till you find a
group, which is interesting for you. Click with
right mouse button onto the name of the group,
select "subscribe" , (if you want to unsubscribe any time,
it is the same way, then click again onto
"subscribe"). Continue with searching
for groups, and subscribe all groups which are
intersting for you. Now click onto "All
Groups" at the top of that window , then you see only the subscribed
groups.
Downloading message headers:
To get the Headers in the groups go in the Menue
to "Online" and select "Get New
Headers in Subscribed Groups" (if you want
to get Headers in all your subscribed groups), or
select "Get New Headers in Selected
Groups" (if you want only get headers in the
groups, you have marked in the groups-window) . You can also click on the first icon
(for all groups) from left side in the Toolbar,
or second icon (for selected groups) , this way is little bit easier.
If Agent got all headers, you can see them in the
right upper window. Left site of the message
header you will see sometimes this icon  , that means there are
responses to that message. To see the responses,
click into the icon. To see all message headers,
also all responses, click onto "Thread"
at the top of the window. You can sort
the message headers by "Subject",
"Autor" or "Date" with a
click onto buttons at the top of the window.
Downloding messages:
To receive any message make a double-click onto
the Header of that message. The message you can
see then in the lower window. There you can also
see, if there is an attachment. To open the
attachment make a double-click onto, click onto
the button "Launch" of the window which
you see then . You can also open an attachment with a
click onto the third icon from right side of the
toolbar . But you need not to read news online,
you can read them too offline. To mark messages,
you want Agent shall download later on one time,
click onto that message so it is marked, then
click onto the 7th icon from right side of the
toolbar . Now you see this icon  left side of the message.
Continue marking messages which you want receive
in all groups. Of course you can select several
messages to mark them on one time, it is the same
way like in any other Win98 application. To
receive the marked messages, click onto the third
icon from left side of the toolbar . For better reading of messages, i
recommend to activate "Word Wrap", then
you need not to scroll right side, if there is a
message with long text written without word wrap.
To activate "word wrap" go in the menue
bar to "Message" and select "Word
Wrap" .
Meaning of some things:
The header of messages, which are unread, are red
coloured, those are read black coloured. If you
want to see only unread message headers, or all
message headers, click onto button right side of
"bincolars" , and make your selection in the window
which is open then .
If you have downloaded messages, you will see
left side of the message headers some icons.
The meaning is:
 = Usenet message with
plain text
 = Usenet message with
attachments
 = Usenet message for
which all attachments have been saved
 = Usenet message is no
longer available
 = Incomplete usenet
message (incomplete multipart message)
Saving attachments:
To save attachements click with your right mouse
button into the message header, and select
"Save All Attachments" . This saves all attachments of the
selected message. Of course you can select more
than one message header, then Agent saves all
attachments of all selected messages at one time.
The saved attachments you will find in the folder
of Agent.
Saving attachments automatically
(configuration):
You can save attachments also automatic, and also
in different folder for each newsgroup. Go in the
menue bar to "Group" and select
"Default Properties" . In the window you see now, select the
tab "Receive Files" and activate
"Save attachments automatically" . press "OK". If you want to
save attachments in an other folder than the
Agent folder, make a new folder on your hard
disk, go again "Group" >
"Default Properties", but now select
tab "Directory" . Click onto the button
"Browse". In the window you see now make always a double click on that
folder, you want to open, or you want to see the
folder tree. You can change the drive with the
dropdown menue below the folder-window. If you
have found and opend the folder you want to save
the attachments, press "OK". Click also
"OK" on the window "Default
Properties for All Groups".
If you want to save attachments for any, or each
group in an other folder, make this folders on
your hard drive. Then select the group in the
window, which shows the group names, for which
you want to change the default properties. Then
go in the menue bar to "Group" select
"Properties" , select the tab "Directory"
and activate "Override default
settings" . Click onto button "Browse"
to select the right folder, then click onto
"OK". Continue in this way with all
other groups you want to change the default
properties.
Multipart messages:
If you download multipart messages, which looks
like that , you need to join them manual. First
you need to mark them all. (select first header,
press "Shift" and keep it down while
you select last header), or (click with left
mouse button on first header, keep mouse button
down while you move your mouse arrow downwards
till you reach last header), or if header not in
a row (press "Strg" and kepp it down
while you select with your mouse all other
headers). Then go in the menue bar to
"Message" and select "Join
Sections..." . In the window now opens, check if the
sequence correct . If not, select one header and move it
with the "Up" and "Down"
buttons right side, till it is at the correct
place. Continue till all headers are in the
correct sequence. Then press "Join"
button.
If you download multipart message, which looks
like that , you need an other program to join the
parts. (Have a look to
"Pictures/Movies-Split and Join large files
on my Homepage)
Multiple Users and Servers:
You can configure Agent only for one newsserver
an one e-mailbox. If you have more e-mailboxes
and want to use Agent for several newsservers,
create a folder for each Agent you need, with
different folder names. Copy the files
"agent.exe", "agent.hlp",
"*.cod", "main*.clx", and
"main*.tlx" from the Agent folder,
where Agent is installed, into each of the other
folders (the "*" means, there are
different names). Now create shortcuts in the
Start/Program menue or on your desktop which are
linked to corresponding "agent.exe", so
you can open all your Agents easy. Now you can
configure each Agent how you need it.
Tip:
After installation of Agent, do not use that
Agent. Create as many other Agent folder you need
for use, but do not place them onto your
boot-partition (normaly "C:\"). Place
them all onto an other partition. The reason: All
datas each Agent stores in his own folder. If you
have to make a new installation of your
boot-partition, you will lose only the emty
Agent, all your other Agents are save on an other
drive. If you have finished the new installation,
you only need to install an Agent, and all other
Agents will work excellent again. You will see,
you save much work.
If you want to download all marked messages
automatically, have a look to
"Computer/Automatize Your Programs" on
my Homepage.
Here you can download the Agent: http://www.forteinc.com |
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