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xpn

XPN(1)								  xpn User Manual							    XPN(1)

NAME

       xpn - graphical newsreader written in Python with the GTK+ toolkit

SYNOPSIS

       xpn [-d | --home_dir]

       xpn [-c | --custom_dir= {directory}]

       xpn [-h | --help]

DESCRIPTION

       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, ...

OPTIONS

       -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.

FILES

       ${HOME}/.xpn/
	   Default directory where xpn stores its configuration and articles.

AUTHORS

       Antonio Caputo <nemesis2001@gmx.it>
	   Upstream author.

       Batista Facundo <facundo@taniquetil.com.ar>
	   Contributed some code.

       David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

       Emmanuele Bassi <emmanuele.bassi@infinito.it>
	   Contributed some code.

       Guillame Bedot <guillaume.bedot@wanadoo.fr>
	   French translator and contributed some code.

       Marek Macioschek <Marek.M@gmx.net>
	   German translator.

       Patrick Lamaiziere <patrick.softs@lamaiziere.net>
	   French translator.

       Rene Fischer <rene.fischer@gaehn.org>

	   German translator.

       Valentino Volonghi <dialton3@virgilio.it>
	   Contributed some code.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 David Paleino

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

xpn								    02/09/2008								    XPN(1)