11/04/2024 13:08, Gleb Hlebov -> All:

I hope it is correct in slrn.

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Looks good.

Carlos

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I hope it is correct in slrn.

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11 Apr 24 14:08:00 Gleb Hlebov (2:221/6) wrote:

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I hope it is correct in slrn.

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11/04/2024 13:08, Gleb Hlebov -> All:

I hope it is correct in slrn.

АБВГДЕЁжзиклм

Looks good from my UTF-8 reader.

(Sorry for my previous post, it seems I wrote my reply inside the quote marks...)

Carlos

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On 2024-04-11, Carlos Navarro <99@234.341.2> wrote:

I hope it is correct in slrn.
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Looks good from my UTF-8 reader.
(Sorry for my previous post, it seems I wrote my reply inside the quote marks...)

Sure... The reply looks good as well. :-)

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Hello Gleb,

On Thu, Apr 11 2024 11:08:00 -0500, you wrote:

I hope it is correct in slrn.

АБВГДЕЁжзиклм

Looks good from this angle (tin), as well as Thunderbird. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Gleb,

On Thu, Apr 11 2024 12:48:26 -0500, you wrote:

Sure... The reply looks good as well. :-)

So, tin or slrn? Which do you like better? :)

Regards,
Nick

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On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:44:06, Nicholas Boel <0@10.154.1> wrote in <fidotest>:

Sure... The reply looks good as well. :-)

So, tin or slrn? Which do you like better? :)

Well... I'm sticking with tin at the moment. All in all, from what I've
seen so far it behaves quite stable (slrn did freeze a couple of times
on re-connecting or opening a newsgroup) and it has a more convenient
"on the fly" settings menu, and last but not least, it's even capable of FTN-style quoting.


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On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:40:06 +0300, you wrote:

Well... I'm sticking with tin at the moment. All in all, from what I've seen so far it behaves quite stable (slrn did freeze a couple of times
on re-connecting or opening a newsgroup) and it has a more convenient
"on the fly" settings menu, and last but not least, it's even capable of FTN-style quoting.

I wonder if your slrn freezing a couple times is because it is such an old version?

And I did notice tin is able to quote with initials. I may have to test that while disabling smartquote in smapinntpd to see if it does it better. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Gleb,

On Fri, Apr 12 2024 09:40:06 -0500, you wrote:

Well... I'm sticking with tin at the moment. All in all, from what I've seen so far it behaves quite stable (slrn did freeze a couple of times
on re-connecting or opening a newsgroup) and it has a more convenient
"on the fly" settings menu, and last but not least, it's even capable of FTN-style quoting.

Quoting with initials seems to work ok, with 'smartquote=off' and 'showto=off'. :)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Gleb Hlebov!

What's even better that it can show multi-level quotes in
colors unlike many FTN readers that I've seen so far (e.g.
GoldED can only display as many as 2 levels).

OpenXP offers colourization of multi-level quotes *and* for
different quote prefixes.

Eg.

AA >
AA >>
GB >
GB >>

..would all be different colours. Very customizable.


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Hello Gleb,

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:35:50 +0300, you wrote:

Yep, it seems the authors stopped updating it in 2016. The official
site says 1.0.3 from 2016 is still the most recent build.

To be honest, I can't find your version anywhere. The official slrn website says the last "release" version was 0.9.9p1.

Either way, I went with the dev version from git://git.jedsoft.org/git/slrn.git, which is believe is 1.0.4-pre-9 or something similar.

What's even better that it can show multi-level quotes in colors unlike many FTN readers that I've seen so far (e.g. GoldED can only display as > many as 2 levels).

I'm not much of a fan of colored text, but slrn is able to do that as well, I believe up to 4 or 5 levels. Then again, I don't quote much more than two levels unless I'm testing anyway. :)

I still prefer tin, though. You can look back on some real old documentation as well as their mailing lists, and see some Fidonet related topics, or posts by people from Fidonet, even. So there was definitely some FTN related functionality added into tin, which is pretty neat to see.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello August,

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:07:00 -0400, you wrote:

OpenXP offers colourization of multi-level quotes *and* for
different quote prefixes.

..would all be different colours. Very customizable.

I wasn't able to resize the window, and on a 32" monitor, the terminal looked like an oversized icon. Any way to get around that?

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Nicholas Boel!

OpenXP offers colourization of multi-level quotes *and*

[...]

I wasn't able to resize the window, and on a 32" monitor,
the terminal looked like an oversized icon. Any way to get
around that?

Huh? Just right-click on the shortcut or the .exe and select
Properties. Then adjust the font and screen size to meet your
requirements.


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Hello August,

On 16 Apr 24 20:15 you wrote:

I wasn't able to resize the window, and on a 32" monitor,
the terminal looked like an oversized icon. Any way to get
around that?

Huh? Just right-click on the shortcut or the .exe and select
Properties. Then adjust the font and screen size to meet your requirements.

I think I'm getting some things figured out. Still a lot of RTFM to do
though.

Regards,
Nick

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Hello August,

On 16 Apr 24 21:21 you wrote:

I wasn't able to resize the window, and on a 32" monitor,
the terminal looked like an oversized icon. Any way to get
around that?

Huh? Just right-click on the shortcut or the .exe and select
Properties. Then adjust the font and screen size to meet your requirements.

By the way, I didn't see anything about fonts and screen sizes in properties, but I did find the way to adjust the screen size by lines and columns in OpenXP itself (which is kind of limited, but I found one I could use).

Otherwise, it's not too bad so far as I slowly figure everything out and make minor adjustments.

Regards,
Nick

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Hi Nicholas...

Hello August,
On 16 Apr 24 21:21 you wrote:

Huh? Just right-click on the shortcut or the .exe and select
Properties. Then adjust the font and screen size to meet your
requirements.

By the way, I didn't see anything about fonts and screen sizes in properties, but I did find the way to adjust the screen size by lines and columns in OpenXP itself (which is kind of limited, but I found one I could use).
Otherwise, it's not too bad so far as I slowly figure everything out and make minor adjustments.
Regards,
Nick
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If you right-click on the open console header you should get see an option for properties. Are you running the windows version? ..or the Linux version?

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Hello Aug,

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:08:26 +0300, you wrote:

If you right-click on the open console header you should get see an
option for properties. Are you running the windows version? ..or the
Linux version?

I was testing the Windows version, and yes.. I found that out after the fact. You had originally told me to right click the .exe or the openxp icon, which didn't have anything regarding those settings. No worries, though. I eventually found it.

Looks like while reading UTF-8 seems to work, quoting and posting it doesn't seem possible, though.

Also, all messages in the reader view gets wrapped at 80 characters, so setting your screen size bigger than that doesn't really do much except give you more blank space. :(

It definitely has a lot of features - as well as multiple ways to get your fidonet messages, though.

Regards,
Nick

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On 2024-04-16, Nicholas Boel <0@10.154.1> wrote:

Yep, it seems the authors stopped updating it in 2016. The official
site says 1.0.3 from 2016 is still the most recent build.

To be honest, I can't find your version anywhere. The official slrn
website says the last "release" version was 0.9.9p1.

I think I just somehow googled it and it offered me https://slrn.info,
titled "Home of the slrn newsreader". Although it's complicated... There is also an abandoned page at sourceforge (last updated 2013) and there are
some slrn forks on github.com, among which there seem to be the
"official" jedsoft page which lists version pre1.0.4-6. Anyway, too much
of a mess for me. :-)


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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:07:00, August Abolins <21@757.153.1> wrote:

What's even better that it can show multi-level quotes in
colors unlike many FTN readers that I've seen so far (e.g.
GoldED can only display as many as 2 levels).

OpenXP offers colourization of multi-level quotes *and* for
different quote prefixes.

I was trying to set up OpenXp the other day without too much delving
into the manual but that seems impossible. It appears I will have to do
it step-by-step while reading the manual and applying one setting at a
time. Maybe it has something to do with the German way of writing
programs.
:-)

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Hello Gleb!

[...] Maybe it has something to do with the German way of
writing programs. :-)

I followed the user-produced manual step-by-step. It was
extremely helpful.

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Hello Gleb,

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:32:42 +0300, you wrote:

I think I just somehow googled it and it offered me https://slrn.info, titled "Home of the slrn newsreader". Although it's complicated... There is
also an abandoned page at sourceforge (last updated 2013) and there are some slrn forks on github.com, among which there seem to be the
"official" jedsoft page which lists version pre1.0.4-6. Anyway, too much of a mess for me. :-)

Agreed. I believe I'm using pre1.0.4-9 here, but it's all good. Tin seems to do just as much, if not more - especially when it comes to FTN related things.

Regards,
Nick

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