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Author: François PIETTE
Description: TNntpCli is a client for the NNTP protocol (RFC-977)
EMail: francois.piette@ping.be http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
francois.piette@rtfm.be
Creation: December 19, 1997
Version: 1.01
WebSite: http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette/indexuk.htm
Support: Use the mailing list twsocket@rtfm.be See website for details.
Legal issues: Copyright (C) 1997 by François PIETTE
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or
implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable
for any damages arising from the use of this software.
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it
and redistribute it freely, subject to the following
restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented,
you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment
in the product documentation would be appreciated but is
not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and
must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
distribution.
Updates:
Dec 30, 1997 V0.91 Bug: StatusCode was not updated for Connect
Added PostingPermited property and ParseListLine procedure as
suggested by J. Peter Mugaas
Dec 31, 1997 V0.92 Added XOVER, LIST OVERVIEW.FMT and DATE commands
Jan 10, 1998 V0.93 Added OnStateChange event as suggested by J. Peter Mugaas
Jan 13, 1998 V0.94 Added readonly property State
Feb 02, 1998 V0.95 Corrected a message in the Quit method.
Added the NntpCliVersion constant.
Feb 03, 1998 V0.96 Added Authenticate method, UserName and PassWord properties.
Apr 13, 1998 V1.00 Added an intermediate message for OnRequestDone event
Created the Handle property and related WndProc stuff
Apr 21, 1998 V1.01 Corrected buffer overflow in the OnDataAvailable event.
Thanks to Tim Skinner tim@palacecs.demon.co.uk who found that bug.
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TNntpDisplay
TNntpRequest
TNntpState
TRequestDone
NntpCliVersion
NNTP_RCV_BUF_SIZE
WM_NNTP_REQUEST_DONE
procedure ParseListLine(const Line : String;
var NewsGroupName : String;
var LastArticle : Integer;
var FirstArticle : Integer;
var PostingFlag : Char);
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procedure Register;
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TNntpDisplay = procedure(Sender: TObject; Msg : PChar; Len : Integer) of object
TNntpRequest = (nntpGroup, nntpList,
nntpPost, nntpHelp,
nntpNewGroups, nntpNewNews,
nntpArticleByNumber, nntpArticleByID,
nntpBodyByID, nntpBodyByNumber,
nntpHeadByID, nntpHeadByNumber,
nntpStatByID, nntpStatByNumber,
nntpNext, nntpLast,
nntpQuit, nntpAbort,
nntpXOver, nntpListOverViewFmt,
nntpDate, nntpAuthenticate);
TNntpState = (nntpNotConnected, nntpDnsLookup, nntpWaitingBanner,
nntpReady, nntpWaitingResponse);
TRequestDone = procedure(Sender: TObject; RqType: TNntpRequest; Error: Word) of object
NntpCliVersion = 101
Controls, Graphics,
NNTP_RCV_BUF_SIZE = 4096
WM_NNTP_REQUEST_DONE = WM_USER + 1