Group: news.software.readers
From: JohnT
Date: Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: Is it possible to run slrn from a thumb drive?

On 2007-08-10, Mike Dee wrote:
> In article < @ >,
> JohnT wrote:
>
>> If I had a thumb drive formatted as a Linux ext3 file system, could I
>> download slrn to it and install it there have it work even if I plug
>> the thumb drive into say.. a Windows machine?
>
> This is a troll, right?

Nope, not a troll. Just someone asking a question.
>
> Anyway... Not formatted as ext3 but Fat32.
>
> Install a Win32 port of slrn and a native version, if you want to use on
> both systems.

Thanks. That should work. I'll give it try on the weeke.
>
> Either DL a Win32 binary of slrn from sourceforge or compile your own:
>< /docs/ >

Your help is much appreciated.
>


--
** Registered Linux user number 451587
** Filtering out Google Groups sinc 2007-08-02
** slrn user (Ubuntu and SimplyMepis) since 2007-08-05
JohnT (my other machine tries to run Swinedows XP)