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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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On 2014-02-09, Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnlfavc9.j9v.timmcn@sugaree.local>,
>  Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>
>> I have gone to using slrn with nano as an editor in Terminal
>
> Thanks for the tip about slrn. Other posts indicate I could use 
> TextWrangler as its editor. 
>
> I begun using Internet with tin in May 1993 (I still remember seeing 
> comp.sys.mac.digest for real for the first time!!). So using CLI is not 
> a very big deal for me.
>
> ...I have tried to install slrn but I have not yet succeeded following 
> the instructions below in a (fresh install) of OS X 10.9.1.
>
> First, there is no wget pre-installed. But using plain ftp or 
> downloading via Safari worked.
>
> But the ./configure step fails with an error. Quick Googling around 
> indicated the error is caused by some missing 64-bit library or 
> something like that... There was a workaround but it didn't help the OP 
> or me... Just for fun I tried to compile it under 64-bit Ubuntu VM but 
> it failed with the same error.
>
> Supposedly there are precompiled binaries somewhere but I didn't find 
> them.
>
> http://slrn.sourceforge.net/download.html

Did you compile and install slang first? 

Here are the steps I used in 10.9.x:

curl ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slang/v2.2/slang-2.2.4.tar.gz >
slang-2.2.4.tar.gz
tar xzf slang-2.2.4.tar.gz
cd slang-2.2.4
./configure
make
sudo make install

curl http://www.jedsoft.org/slrn/download/slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz >
slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xzf slrn-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd slrn-1.0.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

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