Subj : Re: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : Joacim Melin
From : tenser
Date : Thu May 14 2020 10:40:44

On 13 May 2020 at 11:00a, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
 
 JM>  t> What software are you using, is the source code available, and
 JM>  t> what precisely do you mean when you write, "it will not work"
 JM>  t> on recent versions of FreeBSD?  8.4 is long dead, but perhaps
 JM>  t> I can get it to run if the source is lying around somewhere
 JM>  t> (preferably github).  Does it compile and fail to run, crash
 JM>  t> mysteriously and randomly, or fail to compile?
 JM> 
 JM> It fails to compile.  The source code is here: 
 JM> 
 JM> http://www.sklaffkom.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/s132.tar.gz
 JM> 
 JM> Feel free to have a look.  It would be awesome to get it running under
 JM> FreeBSD 12 or CentOS 7 or something more modern. 

Sure.  I got it to compile without errors/warnings
on FreeBSD 12.1 and OpenBSD 6.6.  I haven't tested
it, though.

fetch http://fat-dragon.org/pub/sklaff-1.32.tar.gz

There's as git repo in there that should show
exactly what I changed.

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