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MINGW32/wstdio/libslang port of the slrn news reader
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: MINGW32/wstdio/libslang port of the slrn news reader
- From: vtailor at gte dot net
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:20:29 -0500 (CDT)
- Cc: vtailor at gte dot net
The latest updated port of slrn to Windows 32 boxes has been posted to
alt.binaries.news-server-comparison.
This is a compressed, archived, latest beta of the 32-bit Windows
version of the Unix SLRN news reader. It is statically linked to
the libslang library and the wstdio console library. To send
mail from the news reader, you need to find the `sendmail' program
on the internet, and modify the configuration (slrn.rc) file
accordingly.
Because of the present limitations of the MINGW32 compiler when a
graphics program is linked to crtdll.dll, you need to launch slrn
either from a Microsoft console command line or from a batch (.bat)
file. A sample slrn.bat file is enclosed.
Included are latest copies of libwstdio.a and libslang.a (with changes
for libwstdio.a), as well as include files needed for compiling programs.
Features include:
- Mouse capability (with the -m option)
- For Windows 3, converts internal file names of any size
to (8,3) file names, but uses (8,3) external files, such
as newsrc.txt.
- Optimized screen-display algorithm, so that screen updates
are super fast (new feature).
- Copy-and-paste now implemented.
- Not a Windows console app, so can use, e. g., Windows
asynchronous socket calls. (to do)
- slrn configuration file (slrn.rc) debugged for Windows use
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