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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/11/2023 9:16 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Just to be clear about what Cygwin provides.

Cygwin build tools, compilers, header files, libraries etc.
allow one to build *nix source code. The result is Windows
EXE/DLL that run on any Windows as long as the the Cygwin
runtime DLL is present.

Nice tool. I have used it for more than 20 years.

But it is not emulating Linux like WSL1 does (or Wine
does in the reverse direction).

Arne