Re: Free / opensource text-only reader for linux - suggestions, please?

On 2024-04-28, rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-04-27, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-04-26, Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
>
rodion_gork@mail.ru (RodionGork) spake the secret code
<353106c549c5267814e3e2c71aff0b10@www.novabbs.com> thusly:
>

But what about client?

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I like trn.  It's available through most linux package managers.
>
I like it so much that I'm hacking on it to improve it:
<https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/trn>

 
Where can we find this changes? I am using slrn on my laptops/desktops
but I have termux on one of my tablets and can't find a good client..

>
  If you use slrn on your laptops/desktops, then can't you just build it
on Termux? Shouldn't be too hard.
>
  I don't use slrn myself (but tin), but AFAIK the current main slrn
website is <http://slrn.info>.

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I tried, but is missing libraries, and is arm procesor so a ton of
errors

You're using termux, downloaded from F-Droid? (Play Store version
is outdated).

I downloaded the source and compiled it myself. For Termux (Linux under
Android; minor edits required but if it works there...)

GitHub - jedsoft/slrn: A multi-platform Usenet client
https://github.com/jedsoft/slrn

Listing of diffs:

diff --git a/src/misc.c b/src/misc.c
index d6b1886..555e0cd 100644
--- a/src/misc.c
+++ b/src/misc.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ void slrn_verror (char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
    va_list ap1;
 
-   VA_COPY(ap1, ap);
+   va_copy(ap1, ap);
 
    if ((Slrn_TT_Initialized & SLRN_SMG_INIT) == 0)
      {
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ FILE *slrn_open_tmpfile_in_dir (char *dir, char *file, size_t n)
  else if (i)
    break;
 
- fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IREAD | S_IWRITE);
+ fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
  if (fd != -1)
    {
       if (NULL == (fp = fdopen (fd, "w")))
diff --git a/src/snprintf.c b/src/snprintf.c
index 8bed6b4..2c9890a 100644
--- a/src/snprintf.c
+++ b/src/snprintf.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ char *slrn_strdup_vprintf (const char *format, va_list args1) /*{{{*/
   
    if (format == NULL) return NULL;
   
-   VA_COPY (args2, args1);
+   va_copy (args2, args1);
   
    buffer = slrn_safe_malloc (printf_string_upper_bound (format, args1));
   
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