From: swhatley@blkbox.com (Steven Whatley) Subject: Re: cygwin ports (tin) 26 Jan 1999 13:52:06 -0800 Message-ID: References: <36AD4A9B.44F27984@paul.rutgers.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Anil K Ruia wrote: > This is unrelated to your problem but I noticed that you have got tin > installed. I would appreciate it if you could make a summary of the > build step. For those interested, the info to compile tin-981225 are included below. Enjoy, Steven --------------------------------------------------------------------- From urs@akk.org Tue Jan 26 08:01:19 1999 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:13:43 +0100 From: "[iso-8859-1] Urs Janßen" To: tin-dev@tin.org, tin-users@tin.org Subject: tin: tin for windows howto (english) Any volunteers for proofreading/testing (Windows 95 and NT 4.0 have been reported to work, anyone with Windows 98 around?) the following text? | *tin-981225* | -------------- | | - what is it? | - A Usenet newsreader | | - system | - Windows 95, should work on NT, too | | - Cygwin | - for B20 | | - preliminaries | - install ncurses first | - get tin source (e.g from ftp://ftp.tin.org/tin) | | - configure | - export CC=gcc | - export CFLAGS="-DLOCAL_CHARSET=850" (or 477 depends on "mode con") | - ./configure --with-ncurses --libdir=/usr/local/lib --disable-locale | | - make | - cd src | - make | | - make install | - does not work. Just copy tin.exe from the src dir to a directory in | your path. | - add to your profile: | export NNTPSERVER=your.nntp.server | export TERM=pcansi | | - notes | - You also need an editor. vim works fine. | - tin needs an /etc/passwd | username:x:500:100:Real Name:/home:/bin/sh.exe | - in autoexec or in cygnus.bat | set HOME=c:\home | set USER=username | | - package availability | - on | - in | - as | | - contributed by | - uafr@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Wolfgang Becker) | 19.1.1999 please send updates/suggestions directly to Wolfgang Becker thanks, urs -- "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".