Please consider upgrading to trn4 in the next release. It is much more "modern" and feature-ful. It is available from http://trn.sourceforce.net/
trn4 appears to be still in beta, deferred until final relase of trn4.
It is a beta only in the documentation really. The docs haven't been 100% updated yet. Otherwise, the program is solid and stable (I've been using trn4 exclusively for a couple of years now, including on shell servers at the ISPs I've worked for).
I'd like to reopen this, since trn 3.6 has been dropped due to license issues. Is the license from trn version 4 acceptable? Here it is: ************************************************************************ This software is Copyright (C) 1991-2000 by Wayne Davison. Portions Copyright (C) by Clifford A. Adams, Stan Barber, Larry Wall, and others. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or otherwise use this software as long as: there is no monetary profit gained specifically from the use or reproduction of this software, it is not sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed, and this copyright notice is included prominently in any copy made. Software bundlers who include trn among other diverse applications are exempt from this restriction, as long as the distribution includes trn's source code (including this license). The authors make no claims as to the fitness or correctness of this software for any use whatsoever, and it is provided as is. Any use of this software is at the user's own risk. ************************************************************************ If not, what kind of changes would be necessary? Also, since the software is only beta because the documentation hasn't been updated to include the new features (the code is functional and works), I don't see why it being named "beta" is a problem (especially since Red Hat Linux 7.1 includes development versions of software like vim and lynx).
It doesn't mention "modify" among what you have the right to do, and it's also restrictive in that you can't make money of it (it's somewhat better since it now applies to it specifically, but it's still not an open source license.