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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 28 Mar 2015 20:30:00 GMT
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On 2015-03-28, M. John Matlaw <nouser@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/15 10:51 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>
>> 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/>
>
> Does it matter whether I use slang-2.3.0.tar.bz2 or slang-2.3.0.tar.gz ?

Nope. Those are the same version. The contents are the same, just compressed
differently. The bz2 file is compressed with Bzip2. The gz file is
compressed with gzip. I typically choose the tar.gz file, because I can
decompress it with: tar xzf filename.tar.gz. Use whichever suits your
needs best.

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JR