slrn in Windows

[Stan]

Will slrn run on 64-bit Win7? If so, where is the best place to get it?
Seems like everybody and their mothers want you to download something
or another. Thanks.

[Keith]

Yes. You can obtain the program for windows at the slrn web site.
You will need to set up a windows batch file to run the program and
set up the slrn.rc configuration program for it.

@echo off
del jnewsrc-forte.txt-lock
CLS
rem #THIS IS NEEDED
rem #set NNTPSERVER=my.newsserver.isp

rem #Edited 6-3-09 Keith Wyatt
set NNTPSERVER=news.eternal-september.org
set USER=foo_user
set NNTPSERVER
set USER
rem #chcp 65001
cd C:\Users\Keith\Documents\slrn
set SLRNHOME=C:\Users\Keith\Documents\slrn
set SLRN_SLANG_DIR=C:\Users\Keith\Documents\slrn\slang
@echo "Press a Key or control-c to cancel"
@pause
slrn.exe %1


rem #These two VARIABLES are normally relative to the
rem #PATH where slrn.exe is started. Set them, if you want
rem #to point them to different locations.

rem set SLRNHOME=c:\slrn
rem set SLRN_SLANG_DIR=c:\slrn\slang

rem #To enable UTF-8 support on Windows you need a console
rem #font which supports UTF-8 character and to either
rem #set the codepage to 65001 with
rem chcp 65001
rem #or set the environment variable LANG the this way:
rem set LANG=en_US.UTF-8
rem # In case of utf-8 mode you better set
rem # "set simulate_graphic_chars 1" in your slrn.rc

rem # if you run slrn for the first time uncomment to following line
rem # for one call of this script
rem slrn --create
rem # slrn

--

Best Regards, Keith
http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/

[Stan]

On 9/18/2012 3:45 PM, Keith wrote:
> On 2012-09-18, Stan <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Will slrn run on 64-bit Win7? If so, where is the best place to get it?
>> Seems like everybody and their mothers want you to download something
>> or another. Thanks.
>
> Yes. You can obtain the program for windows at the slrn web site.
> You will need to set up a windows batch file to run the program and
> set up the slrn.rc configuration program for it.

Keith, hello. As I am familiar with Windows batch files, I want to ask
you about some points in yours below.

1. Is this one you made for running slrn on 64-bit Windows? When I look
at the slrn website at Sourceforge, it nowhere mentions 64-bit Windows,
only 32-bit.

2. Most of the lines are remarked out, and are you saying that I should
leave them remarked out or should I un-rem any of them?

3. Is this batch file showing me two things. First, it has several
lines marked with rem because these lines are explaining (reminding) the
purpose of such lines, each of which, secondly, you have shown me for
example how yours is set up currently?

4. You are expecting that I should change these lines for my system
based on the notes you included within the batch file itself?

5. Can the slrn program be downloaded and simply saved in one folder,
or is there an installation routine I would need to follow and then
modify the configuration file as below?

[Joe Dixon]

On 09/19/2012 08:24 AM, Stan wrote:
> On 9/18/2012 3:45 PM, Keith wrote:
>> On 2012-09-18, Stan <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Will slrn run on 64-bit Win7? If so, where is the best place to get it?
>>> Seems like everybody and their mothers want you to download something
>>> or another. Thanks.
>>
>> Yes. You can obtain the program for windows at the slrn web site.
>> You will need to set up a windows batch file to run the program and
>> set up the slrn.rc configuration program for it.
>
> Keith, hello. As I am familiar with Windows batch files, I want to ask
> you about some points in yours below.
>
> 1. Is this one you made for running slrn on 64-bit Windows? When I look
> at the slrn website at Sourceforge, it nowhere mentions 64-bit Windows,
> only 32-bit.

Slrn 32-bit runs fine on 64 bit windows.

>
> 2. Most of the lines are remarked out, and are you saying that I should
> leave them remarked out or should I un-rem any of them?

THe REM lines are just notes from the person who wrote the original
batch file someone posted years ago. Leaving the REM lines in a batch
file will not make any difference.

>
> 3. Is this batch file showing me two things. First, it has several
> lines marked with rem because these lines are explaining (reminding) the
> purpose of such lines, each of which, secondly, you have shown me for
> example how yours is set up currently?
>
> 4. You are expecting that I should change these lines for my system
> based on the notes you included within the batch file itself?

The only thing you have to change is the USER, NNTPSERVER, the 'cd
command' will make sure the batch file changes to the directory you have
slrn.exe located in. You will have to also set the SLRNHOME and
SLRN_SLANG_DIR to the location where you have those directories.

>
> 5. Can the slrn program be downloaded and simply saved in one folder,
> or is there an installation routine I would need to follow and then
> modify the configuration file as below?

Download the zip file and unzip it with the unzip command so that the
folders are created when the file is unzipped.

Then you must edit the slrn.rc file that comes with slrn.exe

[andrew]

On 2012-09-19, Joe Dixon <j.d...@invalid.spam> wrote:

> Then you must edit the slrn.rc file that comes with slrn.exe

There are a few hints for this here:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html

Andrew
--
Do you think that's air you're breathing?

[Mike Yetto]

andrew <and...@skamandros.invalid> writes and having writ moves on.

>On 2012-09-19, Joe Dixon <j.d...@invalid.spam> wrote:

>> Then you must edit the slrn.rc file that comes with slrn.exe

>There are a few hints for this here:

>http://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html

Good to see you made it here. I was about to post your name three
times.

Mike "Ανδρέας Ανδρέας Ανδρέας" Yetto
--
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice they are not.

[andrew]

On 2012-09-20, Mike Yetto <mye...@nycap.invalid> wrote:
> andrew <and...@skamandros.invalid> writes and having writ moves on.
>>On 2012-09-19, Joe Dixon <j.d...@invalid.spam> wrote:
>
>>> Then you must edit the slrn.rc file that comes with slrn.exe
>
>>There are a few hints for this here:
>
>>http://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html
>
> Good to see you made it here. I was about to post your name three
> times.

Mind you I have not actually had slrn compiled on my Windows VM for
quite some time and I have been sufficiently prompted by this thread
to crack out MinGW and go through that laborious process again :).
Still waiting for anybody to follow through with the process described
on this page :(.

[Robert Miles]

You should be able to install Cygwin (a Linux emulation for Windows),
then the Cygwin version of slrn under that.

http://www.cm.org/nocem.html

I haven't tried this, though.

[Robert Miles]

On 9/19/2012 10:24 AM, Stan wrote:
> On 9/18/2012 3:45 PM, Keith wrote:
>> On 2012-09-18, Stan <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Will slrn run on 64-bit Win7? If so, where is the best place to get it?
>>> Seems like everybody and their mothers want you to download something
>>> or another. Thanks.
>>
>> Yes. You can obtain the program for windows at the slrn web site.
>> You will need to set up a windows batch file to run the program and
>> set up the slrn.rc configuration program for it.
>
> Keith, hello. As I am familiar with Windows batch files, I want to ask
> you about some points in yours below.
>
> 1. Is this one you made for running slrn on 64-bit Windows? When I look
> at the slrn website at Sourceforge, it nowhere mentions 64-bit Windows,
> only 32-bit.

64-bit Windows Vista or 7 includes SYSWOW64, which allows running most
32-bit programs. Such programs cannot use more than about 3.5 GB of
memory, even if more if present, though.

I don't know if 64-bit Windows XP will run 32-bit programs, though.