NewsWire Users Manual.

• Unpacking and Installing.
• Hiding and Showing the Tool-bar.
• Opening a NewsWire service.
• Options.
• Index.
• Personal Index.
• Command Line Parameters.
• Installing as a helper application for your browser.

gzip -dc newswire-LinuxELF-Dynamic-v0.2.tgz | tar xvf -

You now should have the following file:

newswire
README


And you can run NewsWire by issuing the command:

./newswire &

This window should pop up..

The first time you run NewsWire it will complain that it can not open the configuration file. Pay no attention to this message. This file will be created once you set your preferences.

For the Win32 version move the nw-win32.zip file to the subdirectory where you want to install NewsWire, cd to that subdirectory and unzip the file:

pkunzip nw-win32.zip

You should now have the following files:

newswire.exe
cygwin.dll
README

Move cygwin.dll to somewhere in your default path eg.

<SystemRoot>\system32

And create an icon for newswire.exe in your Program Manager.

Hiding and Showing the Tool-bar

Opening a NewsWire service.

Type the full url of the desired service (you can try the one in the example above) and click the Ok button.

Options.

Several options are available here:

• Scrolling Speed.
• Refresh time. This is the default refresh time for documents that don't indicate a refresh time themselves.
• Background and Text Colors. Click on the button to toggle between Text and Background color selection.
• Checking Use Document Colors enables the use of document defined colors. Otherwise, your chosen colors will always be used.
• Font. Clicking on the Font button will show a font selection dialog. Note that at this point only fixed fonts work properly.
• Proxy Server & Port. If you are behind a firewall and use a proxy server. Type here it's name and port e.g. proxy.your.domain.com

Items on the index window point to other NewsWire documents that can be retrieved by selecting the item and clicking on the Ok button.

NewsWire keeps the las index document available, clicking on the Index button on the tool-bar pops up the index window again.

Personal Index.

The Personal Index is kept locally in the file ~/.newswire-index. By clicking on the Add button the current document is added to the list. Clicking on the Add Index button adds the current index. Selecting an item and clicking Delete deletes the item from the list. To retrieve an item select it and click Ok.

Command Line Parameters.

newswire -f file

Starts NewsWire and shows the document in file.

newswire -u url

Starts NewsWire and retrieves the document pointed by url.

Installing as a helper application for your browser.

With Netscape you accomplish this by selecting the General Preferences dialog from the Options menu. Here select the Helpers tab and add a new entry by clicking on the New... button...

Fill out the dialog as shown above and click Ok. Note that the actual path for the NewsWire executable must be entered in the Application field.

Click here to test your installation.