SLRN for Windows

SLRN for Windows is a reader running under Windows in a DOS-box. The special is, you got a lot of options to configure the layout, colors and many more.

Homepage and download : http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html
Author: John E. Davis davis@space.mit.edu
Newsgroup: news:news.software.readers

  1. Unzip the zipfile in a folder you like.
  2. Read the documentations in folder ./slrn/doc/
  3. Edit the slrn.rc
  4. Write a batch to start SLRN

The folder ./slrn/doc/ contains a sample slrn.rc. Copy this file to the slrn-folder and edit this file. For using SLRN with hamster, the slrn.rc could llo like this example:

% Example slrn.rc
nnrpaccess "localhost" "admin" "."

hostname                     "gmx.net"
set username                 "m.gebert"
set realname                 "Michael Gebert"
set quote_string             ">"
set followup_strip_signature 1
set non_Xbrowser             "start explorer '%s'"
set show_article             0
set show_descriptions        0
set unsubscribe_new_groups   0
set show_thread_subject      1
set mouse                    1
set author_display           2
set display_author_realname  1
set write_newsrc_flags       0
set generate_message_id      0
set editor_command           "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe %s"
set mail_editor_command      "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe %s"
set post_editor_command      "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe %s"
set score_editor_command     "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe %s"
set sendmail_command         "sendsmtp 127.0.0.1"
set read_active              1

The batchfile to start SLRN could look like this:

REM SLRN.BAT
set HOME=d:\programs\slrn\
set NNTPSERVER=localhost
set TMP=c:\windows\temp
slrn.exe

Its recommended to use the option -create at the first start of SLRN to make the file jnews.rc (slrn.exe -create).

Tips and comments:
Massimo writes me an email, that hamster reject access by "localhost" "admin" ".", but you can fix it, if you login to hamster with username in uppercase and the IP-adress of the server, e.g. "127.0.0.1" "ADMIN" "..." [slrn/0.9.6.2 (Win32)]