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Last minute changes:
1997, jan. 3.
Locking of newsrc should now work.
Sometimes the body of messages was translated twice (didn't work well)
1997, jan. 5
Minor changes in the translation table.
1997, jan. 8
Fixed the "TMP on other drive" problem, if rename fails, we copy the
file instead.
1997, jan. 9
Fixed a silly bug where we translated the header twice!
1997, jan. 11
Fixed: wordwrapping of lines with many hi-bit chars were wrapped to
soon.
Fixed: holding down 'arrow-down' caused slrn to ask if you wanted to
post.
This version of slrn 0.9.2.1 can run under OS/2 as well as Unix or VMS.
The compiled binaries, with everything you need to get it running, can
be found on http://www.bgnett.no/~bjoff/slrn.html. There are two
zip-files there;
slrn0921.zip is slrn compiled for OS/2 with the original slrn-sources.
slrn_cp.zip is slrn compiled for OS/2 with support for Codepage 850.
To install either of these, here are the steps needed;
1. Get a copy of the EMX runtime libraries, emxrt.zip (version 09c or
later required). emxrt.zip are available from most OS/2 archives,
for example:
ftp.leo.org: /pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/emx+gcc
hobbes.nmsu.edu: /os2/unix/emx09c
2. Append the following line to config.sys as a minimum, se notes
about variables below.
set NNTPSERVER=my.news.server
set HOME=d:\home\sweet\home
3. Copy the file slrn.rc into the home-directory and edit it to your
needs, it should be pretty well documented.
4. First time you start slrn, start it with the following parameters
"slrn.exe -create", this will create a jnews.rc. After that you can
start it without parameters.
ABOUT VARIABLES:
slrn knows the following variables;
TMP: Directory for temporary files, this should be set when you
installed OS/2 to something like x:\TMP.
USER or LOGNAME: This should be the same as the name in your
email-address.
REPLYTO: If you have another emailaddress than the account your'e
posting from you can set this to the preffered email-address.
HOSTNAME: The name of your computer without domain-name.
NAME: Your real name
ORGANIZATION: Organization to put in the header.
EDITOR or VISUAL: Editor used if not defined in slrn.rc. (if none
of these are defined we use e.exe.
Most of these can be overridden in the slrn.rc file.
BUGS - Some of the char-translation is probably wrong, I need feedback
about this one. Preferable with a Message-ID so I can test it
out myself.
Scoring: regexp's doesn't match the cp850 chars, this requires
changing the S-Lang code, so it won't be done anytime soon. :-(
TODO - Adding config-option to hide configuration files and newsrc like
dotfiles under *nix.
Easier configuration of using other program than sendmail to
send email (MR2Ice, PMmail etc).
I don't think slrn.exe still can be used on a fat-only system,
there is still some filenames that don't conform to the 8+3
filnameing scheme.
The locking of newsrc can be annoying sometimes, maybe add a
check to see if the pid in the lock-file actually exist?
The OS/2 version of slrn will use the full extent of the OS/2 command
window it's run in. You can do "mode co80,50", and it will use all 50
lines. You can also specify a wider window and it will use the extra
width. (If you use a wide window, please take care that your postings
don't exceed 80 characters per line. The net will thank you.)
Mailing a reply to a message, or forwarding a message, works now. You
must modify the sendmail.cf file supplied with the binary distribution
to give it the name of the host that processes your outgoing SMTP mail,
your fully-qualified domain name (to set your email address with), and
the directory that sendmail is to use to queue the outgoing message.
Use the e.exe editor supplied with OS/2, or another editor that does
not mangle tabs, to edit this file, or else sendmail will act very
strangely. The EPM editor is NOT suitable for this task. Alternatively,
if you have a working sendmail.cf for another application, you can tell
slrn to use that by changing the path name on the sendmail_command line
in slrn.rc.
THANKS
John E. Davis, davis@space.mit.edu author of slrn
Jay Maynard, jmaynard@nwpros.com much of the OS/2 port
Bjoern Frantzen, bjoff@bgnett.no Jan. 08. 1997