Graphical newsreader written in python with the gtk+ toolkit
xpn [-d | --home_dir] xpn [-c | --custom_dir= {directory}] xpn [-h | --help]
This manual page documents briefly the xpn command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU info(1) format; see below.
xpn is a graphical newsreader written in Python with the GTK+ toolkit.
With XPN you can read/write articles on the Usenet with a good MIME support. XPN can operate with all the most diffuse charset starting from US-ASCII to UTF-8. When you edit an article XPN automatically chooses the best charset, however is always possible to override this choice.
There also other useful features like scoring, filtered views, random tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation, ROT13, spoiler char, ...
-d, --home_dir
use the home directory to store config files and articles (default).
-c directory, --custom_dir=directory
specify an existing directory where to store config files and articles.
-h, --help
show summary of options.
${HOME}/.xpn/
Default directory where xpn stores its configuration and articles.
Antonio Caputo <[email protected]>
Upstream author.
Batista Facundo <[email protected]>
Contributed some code.
David Paleino <[email protected]>
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.
Emmanuele Bassi <[email protected]>
Contributed some code.
Guillame Bedot <[email protected]>
French translator and contributed some code.
Marek Macioschek <[email protected]>
German translator.
Patrick Lamaiziere <[email protected]>
French translator.
Rene Fischer <[email protected]>
German translator.
Valentino Volonghi <[email protected]>
Contributed some code.
Copyright © 2008 David Paleino
This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
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