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On 2007-09-06, Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:

[...]

> Hey, at the risk of all my other slrn macros falling apart, I just
> installed slang . Mostly I wanted to look at John's most pager and
> figured I'd install the latest. It needed some libaries. So I
> downloaded slang for that. It (most) works, so it's seeing the
> new libraries.
>
> That said, I replaced your slang-v1 macro with your slang-v2 macro. And
> it won't run. What do I have to tell slang? I don't see anything in
> .slrnrc about where to find slang stuff. And slrn itself runs (again,
> if I comment out the interpret command for whois).

I suspect your version of slrn is compiled against slang There is
a workaround for running 2 versions of slang which is mentioned in the
FAQs:

/manual/ #

which I wrote a walk-through for a while ago, and can I say I am
pleased that a need has finally come up for this to be used!! The page
is:

/~adjlstrong/ #slang

I made a few cockups when I did this the first time but the method
posted on this page is the tested, bulletproof version :-)

Andrew

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