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andrew wrote:
> 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:

First, does it seem odd that in that list of files I provided and you
snipped that there are so many for v2 and only a couple for v1. Am I
lacking most of v1?

> /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 :-)

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