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- This version of slrn 0.8.7.1 has been modified to run under OS/2. There are
- some restrictions in this version, but it's working well enough to use. There
- are also some additional setup requirements beyond those for slrn itself.
-
- To use this version of slrn:
- 1) Optionally, place this version of emx.dll somewhere on your LIBPATH. You
- must have version 0.9b of the library (which this package includes) in order
- to avoid nagging error messages and subtle bugs. You can also place this in
- your slrn directory along with slrn.exe, if you wish.
-
- 2) Optionally, place slrn.exe somewhere on your PATH.
-
- 3) Set two environment variables, either in your CONFIG.SYS or else by
- hand before starting slrn:
-
- set NNTPSERVER=your.server.name
- set LOGNAME=youruserid
-
- slrn will complain and refuse to run if NNTPSERVER isn't set, and will default
- to root (a Bad Idea, but an artifact of the emx library) if LOGNAME isn't set.
- The latter will produce a complaint in a later release, so go ahead and set it
- now.
-
- 4) Edit slrn.rc. There are comments at the top for the entries you must change
- for your system, and you may wish to change others as well.
-
- 5) Place slrn.rc in a directory by itself. Run slrn from this directory. The
- first time you do anything that saves a file, the directory you specified in
- slrn.rc will be created; it's best to make that a subdirectory of this one.
-
- 6) Enjoy!
-
- 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.)
-
- This version will also always use the colors specified in the slrn.rc file; you
- don't have to use the -C command line switch to enable them. You might wish to
- play with the colors; the default settings are pretty, but hard for me to read
- (but then, I'm partially colorblind, too.)
-
- The following are known bugs and restrictions of the OS/2 version in this
- release:
-
- Bad Things happen if you don't change the defaults in slrn.rc to fit your
- machine. Don't skip this step. I plan to squash those bugs, but my defaults
- may not fit your situation.
-
- The program does not depend on running on an HPFS file system, but the
- suggested default file name when saving a file is almost never suitable for
- FAT file systems. I'll try to come up with a more sensible default name to
- remove this one. Other files are FAT-friendly, though. (This wasn't entirely
- true in the 0.8.6 OS/2 version; the newsgroups description file defaulted to
- jnews.rc.dsc. If you have this file, you'll need to rename it to ds-jnews.rc.)
-
- Mailing a reply to a message does not work. This is due to the fact that
- IBM does not supply a usable sendmail configuration file for the Internet
- Access Kit. The right answer is probably to build a usable file just for
- slrn, but that's not one of my favorite tasks...
-
- MIME is currently not supported. This one should just take using the version
- of metamail somoeone already ported, so it should be in the next release.
-
- Please drop me email if you discover other bugs; I'll try to squash them and
- pass the fixes along. Good luck with slrn for OS/2!
-
- Jay Maynard, jmaynard@nwpros.com