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- 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.
-
- To install the binaries, 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, see 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 ENVIRONMENT 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 first part in your
- email-address (until @)
- REPLYTO: If you have another emailaddress than the account you're
- 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 ibm850 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.
-
- 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 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.)
-
- To mail a reply or forward a message you need to set up a sendmail-
- command in slrn.rc. The default is 'sendmail -t -af'. To set up slrn
- to use an alternative mailer you can do something like
-
- set sendmail_command "e:\\network\\slrn\\mailfile.cmd"
-
- (note the double slashes) where mailfile.cmd contains something like:
-
- @echo off
- cd e:\network\mr2ice
- start e:\network\mr2ice\mr2i.exe /Q%1
-
- I guess this should work with most mailers.
-
- 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 January 1997
-