[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-12-11, Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt at acm.org> wrote:
> On 12/12/2023 00:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-12-09, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a half decent free (or inexpensive) newsreader for
>>> Windows?
>>>
>> 
>> Will slrn run under Cygwin ?
>> 
> You can build it: <https://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html>
>

That appears to be for Windows native and appears to be a significant
exercise to build.

With Cygwin, slrn believes it is running under a form of Unix and, having
had a quick look, it does appear there are prebuilt versions of slrn in
the Cygwin repository:

https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/slrn.html

I have no idea if there are functionality limitations when running slrn
under Cygwin, but it might be worth exploring for people interested in
an option other than Thunderbird.

Simon.

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