PLOR: General Information

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## 2. General Information

## 2.1 History

We are very poor students of University of Padua; we love linux

PLOR, for us, is an experimental program, which could help us in learning C language; if it will work as an offline reader... well, much better :-)

## 2.2 Why use plor

Some of you could ask why plor exists.

Well, let me stress that plor is an OFFLINE News & Mail READER. This is useful for people using modem, or people which can use the computer only at home, where there is a Linux Box without an internet connection.

There are a lot of programs for people who want to read mail and news offline, but none of this has all the features that I want. These are:

- the ability to use my real mailbox and my real .newsrc, so I can read news & mail both when I am at university (with a full internet connection), and when I am at home offline, without loosing track of what I have already read
- the ability to be used with a TCP/IP connection (PPP, SLIP, etc.) or with a terminal one (sz and rz are always 10% faster than a PPP connection)
- the ability to be run on my provider server, so when I connect I have only to download my `gzip -9' news & mail packet.

Those abilities are achieved with uqwk and a uqwk reader. uqwk already exists for Linux, but there's no good uqwk reader (I hate atp!). So I write plor.

## 2.3 Offline reading with PLOR - miniHOWTO

I use:

> `

>     uqwk +m +n -r +L

> `

to download news & mail on my provider server (or on a machine at university); then I pack all the *.MSG file in a newsmail.zip file with `gzip -9'

These file can be put on a floppy disk, if I am in console at university, or can be downloaded via my PPP connection, or also using minicom. This is versatile.

When I have newsmail.zip at home, I simply unzip it, and use plor to read and post.

When plor exits, it will create a REPLY.zip file, which I uploaded next time I connect (or go to university), and post my new mail messages and news posts with uqwk.

For more information: man uqwk.

## 2.4 Authors

Davide Barbieri paci@pluto.linux.it

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>     via Aldo Moro 36,
>     Campagnola di Brugine
>     35020 Padova Italy

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Zeno Michielon zeno@dei.unipd.it

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>     via Cips Ciaps 69,
>     Lignano
>     35xxx Venezia Italy

> `

## 2.5 Copyright

Plor is FREE SOFTWARE.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

## 2.6 PLUTO Linux Offline Reader

Don't know why in the name of our program there is that funny mickey mouse dog?

PLUTO is the Linux User Group of Italy.

See http://www.pluto.linux.it/ for more informations.

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