XNews on Crossover

[Sn!pe]

If you can read this I've just succeeded in installing XNews onMac OS X 10.8.2 using the new
Crossover ( free for today from <http://flock.codeweavers.com> ). Apparently it's also available
for Linux.

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Sn!pe

[Mike Yetto]

Sn!pe <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes and having writ moves on.

>If you can read this I've just succeeded in installing XNews onMac OS X 10.8.2 using the new
>Crossover ( free for today from <http://flock.codeweavers.com> ). Apparently it's also available
>for Linux.

Well done. Have you tried the latest version? It's labeled as
Test, but don't let that throw you off.

Mike "more of a lunch meeting than a naming convention" Yetto
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In practice they are not.

[Sn!pe]

Mike Yetto <mye...@nycap.invalid> wrote in
news:slrn20121101075...@may.eternal-september.org:

> Sn!pe <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> writes and having writ moves on.
>>If you can read this I've just succeeded in installing XNews onMac OS
>>X 10.8.2 using the new Crossover ( free for today from
>><http://flock.codeweavers.com> ). Apparently it's also available for
>>Linux.
>
> Well done. Have you tried the latest version? It's labeled as
> Test, but don't let that throw you off.
>
> Mike "more of a lunch meeting than a naming convention" Yetto

I will be, Mike, once I find out where Crossover has put xnews.exe.

[...]

And lo and behold, I'm now on Xnews/2009.05.01 :)

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Sn!pe

[Mike Dee]

Sn!pe wrote:

> And lo and behold, I'm now on Xnews/2009.05.01 :)

And it works, too. Congrats, Snipe ;-)

Any anomalies? Fonts & Dialogs OK?

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dee

[Mike Dee]

Sn!pe wrote:

> Sorry for not getting back sooner, Mike, RL has been a bit busy to
> play much with Xnews.
>
> It seems to be pretty good. I did have the settings not sticking
> problem until I remembered about moving XNews out of Program Files
> into its own directory and it seems fine now.
>
> I have had some confusion with installing Xnews into Crossover
> though, which I think has something to do with the set of standard
> installers that Crossover comes with. I can't for the moment find
> an option to install a bare .exe file like Xnews that doesn't need
> an installer, although I seem to have achieved it somehow. I'll
> need to play with that some more.
>
>
> For some unknown reason, though, I can't see your post on the
> server that I have Xnews set up for, hence following up now using
> good old MacSOUP. It's such a long time since I last used Xnews
> that I'll have to learn all the commands again; it's quite a bit
> different from MacSOUP...

Hi Snipe. Yes, I imagine this would be a whole bunch of eek, if
coming from a MacSoupy history... the non-off-line aspect, the least
of it.

I'm curious of differences between Xnews on Crossover and Wine - if
there are any differences or improvements by going to Crossover.

I probably _should've_ DL'd Crossover myself when the opportunity
arose, but figured, nah, I already have Xnews running OK (to a point)
under Wine and its about the only Windows prog that I want to use
outside of Windows, so why bother... but I wish I had bothered
really, lazy sod that I am.

To get Xnews running almost as well as it runs on a Windows box
(under Wine) I needed to copy over the Windows fonts I wanted to use,
and several .DLLs too. Even so, there were a couple of dialogs that
are still an unresolved & unfixed problem.

One of those dialogs is "Keyboard Mapping" (Ctrl + K). Under Wine
this dialog is blank. i.e. You cannot see the keyboard commands that
you can (under Windows), which can be normally user-set. Its
irritating issues like this that I was wondering, if Crossover was
what was needed to eliminate and move towards.

Can you launch Xnews then type "Ctrl + K" or choose "Keyboard
Mapping" from the Xnews "Special" menu and tell me what you see.

Thanks.

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dee

[tlvp]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:05:28 +0000 (UTC), Mike Dee wrote:

> but I wish I had bothered
> really, lazy sod that I am.

Well, wait for next Hallowe'en -- it's often a free treat for a day or so
around then. Cheers, -- tlvp
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[Sn!pe]

Mike Dee <mik...@emteedee.invalid> wrote in
news:XnsA10AEAEB...@emteedee.invalid:

> To get Xnews running almost as well as it runs on a Windows box
> (under Wine) I needed to copy over the Windows fonts I wanted to use,
> and several .DLLs too. Even so, there were a couple of dialogs that
> are still an unresolved & unfixed problem.
>
> One of those dialogs is "Keyboard Mapping" (Ctrl + K). Under Wine
> this dialog is blank. i.e. You cannot see the keyboard commands that
> you can (under Windows), which can be normally user-set. Its
> irritating issues like this that I was wondering, if Crossover was
> what was needed to eliminate and move towards.
>
> Can you launch Xnews then type "Ctrl + K" or choose "Keyboard
> Mapping" from the Xnews "Special" menu and tell me what you see.

The Keyboard Mapping dialog seems to be fine, Mike,
except on this Mac keyboard it's Cmd + K, not Ctrl + K.

> Thanks.

YW :)

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Sn!pe

[Ammammata]

Il giorno Wed 31 Oct 2012 07:40:30p, *Sn!pe* inviava su
news.software.readers il messaggio
news:XnsA0FDBDF90DB17sn...@216.196.109.145. Vediamo cosa
scrisse:

> If you can read this

yes, I can :)

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[Mike Dee]

Sn!pe wrote:

> Mike Dee <mik...@emteedee.invalid> wrote:

[...]

>> Can you launch Xnews then type "Ctrl + K" or choose "Keyboard
>> Mapping" from the Xnews "Special" menu and tell me what you see.
>
> The Keyboard Mapping dialog seems to be fine, Mike,
> except on this Mac keyboard it's Cmd + K, not Ctrl + K.

Thanks Snipe. One up for Crossover.

A couple more q's for you. External Editor? Anything you're using
there? - Clicking the "Ext. Edit" button in the Editor window brings
up an external program of choice (pre-set in the "Setup Xnews" dialog
under "Compose" tab), as an alternative word processor to type up a
post. Usually some other Windows word processor (with a spelling
checker, likely). Some Xnews users use Aspell as an external spelling
checker which is a *nix port & called from a CL. Something that
doesn't work too well (if at all) under Wine. I use Jarte, which is a
lightweight word processor/text editor with a good spelling
dictionary (US & Brit) and this runs well in combo with Xnews under
Wine.

What do you get if you choose "Edit Score File" (under Special menu)?
Wine has a "Notepad.exe" clone that works well. Anything similar
under Crossover?

Browser? What happens if you double-click an URL in a post?

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dee

[r4f]

Have you tried gvim? No need to install a second party spell checker.

[Mike Dee]

Sn!pe wrote:

> Mike Dee <mik...@emteedee.invalid> wrote:
[...]
> >

> > Thanks Snipe. One up for Crossover.
> >

> > A couple more q's for you. External Editor? [...]
>
> Hi, Mike. I've been meaning to get around to your questions for a while,
> sorry I haven't answered them before. You may have seen from my adjacent
> post that a Mac OS X update seems to have broken my copy of Crossover
> and for some strange reason I haven't been able to get hold of an update
> for it, so I'm not in a position to answer any more. Whatever, Crossover
> seems not to be ready for prime-time just yet, for this application at
> least. Still, never mind, it's been a very interesting exercise. If I
> ever do get XNews working properly on this Mac, I'll let you know! <g>

Hi Snipe. You can't reinstall & re-use the serial for Crossover?

Thanks for looking anyways. Seems like I can continue as per usual with
Xnews on wine. At least it does work mostly as expected.

Cheers

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dee

[Mike Dee]

In article <1kv7ve1.1vhpnjnk341exN%sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>,
sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) wrote:

> For some
> strange reason my Codeweavers credentials no longer work. :(
> I'm on Mountain Lion v.10.8.2 BTW.

As it was a "give-away", perhaps its installer is time-bombed and
useable only for a certain period after the give-away date?

Bit of a bummer if you can't re-install, all the same.

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dee