Re: version 0.9.9 released

"Rudy Taraschi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Brian Salter-Duke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:46:16PM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
>> On Friday 22 August 2008 08:33:29 Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>> > Good news. Is there a cygwin executable? Does slrn compile OK on cygwin?
>> > I am happy to havea go, but thought I would ask before trying.
>>
>> There's a Windows binary that doesn't require Cygwin.
>>
>> <http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/windows/>
>
> I have tried that, but it does not look to be what I want. Basically it
> is too windowy. I want to run slrn at a cygwin prompt in a window just
> like I run mutt. I could not get the Windows version to run. It kept
> telling me I had not set "hostname" when I had set it. I was basically
> using the slrn.rc from the old cygwin slrn that worked fine.

I agree - the Windows version just doesn't 'feel' right.  Cut-and-paste
is a royal pain, but that's not slrn's fault.  The Cygwin build is much better.

> If nobody has got a binary that runs under cygwin, I'll have a go at
> compiling it and slang.

If you don't want to roll your own Cygwin binary, I can send you one on
Monday (I don't run Windows at home)   Let me know . . .

/rudy

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