Y2K Information

The authors of tin believes that it is Y2K-compliant, as long as the underlying operating system and C library are. Internally, it makes some use of binary timestamps in Unix format (number of seconds since 1-Jan-1970) and uses C library services to convert these to printing forms. Some NNTP-commands still use two-digit year-portions, tin tries it's best to convert them to a useful four-digit year format wherever needed and possible.

It should be noted that tin does not come with any form of warranty. If you need a full Y2K audit performing, then the source is available for this to be done.

Quick Install:

configure to your local setup (have a look at): ./configure --help (or ./conf-tin)

check your local setup in: include/autoconf.h

compile with: make build (or cd src; make)

install with: make install

Install at your own risk.

Please do NOT mail any bug-reports concerning THIS version to Iain Lea. Send them to tin-bugs@tin.org. Before mailing a bug-report please check if you are using the latest release, and if not, please upgrade first! Have a look a the TODO file for known bugs. If you still think you've found a bug, please use the mail_bugreport function (shift-R) and write in English. Please do NOT enclose a core-file in your bugreport until we request it.

The latest release is available at: ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/current/ or its mirrors.

If you have additional questions or would like to be informed about the latest new features/version you may subscribe to the (developers) tin mailing lists; to subscribe write to majordomo@tin.org, asking in the body to: subscribe and/or read news.software.readers.