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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 28 Mar 2015 14:51:48 GMT
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On 2015-03-28, M. John Matlaw <nouser@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 3/27/15 4:14 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2015-03-27, Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried to get slrn
>>
>> You tried to get it and failed? It's right here:
>>
>> <http://www.slrn.org>
>>
> I'd sort of like to give slrn a try but it looks like it might require 
> software skills that I aint got.  Looks like the pre-compiled binary 
> might be the easiest but it says underneath that
>
> "Note however when considering the use of these binaries that it is 
> often better to compile your own "vanilla" copy of slrn from source code 
> and certainly if you wish to apply patches you will need the original 
> source code."
>
> Plus the MacOS version is 0.9.9-1 where 
> http://www.jedsoft.org/snapshots/ page shows slrn-pre1.0.3-1.tar.gz and 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/slrn/files/ shows slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz .
>
> I'm just wondering whether someone with very limited, decades old 
> programming experience could dl the source code, a compiler, other tools 
> (version 2 of S-Lang and its "development" files?) and get a usable 
> newsreader.
>
> Thing is it looks pretty stable.  And supported.  And I don't think I'd 
> have a problem with the command line.  (My very limited experience was 
> partly with VMS in the 80s.)

It's pretty simple. Do this in an administrator account on your
computer:

Download slrn from: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/slrn/>
Download slang from: <http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/>

1. Decompress both archives.

2. Open a terminal window.

3. Install slang:

a. Use the cd command to change the working directory to the slang
directory.

b. Enter this command to configure the package: ./configure

c. Enter this command to build the package: make

d. Enter this command to install the package (supplying your password when prompted): sudo make install

4. Install slrn:

a. Use the cd command to change the working directory to the slrn
directory.

b. Enter this command to configure the package: ./configure

c. Enter this command to build the package: make

d. Enter this command to install the package (supplying your password
when prompted): sudo make install

5. Copy the slrn configuration file from slrn-1.0.1/doc/slrn.rc to your
home directory, edit it as you see fit, and rename it .slrnrc so that
slrn will see it when you start it up.

Feel free to post here (and news.software.readers) for help with
configuration if needed. A few folks here use slrn and can help you do
things like setting it up to use Mac text editors for posting, filtering
posts, and so on.

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JR