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

> Once more, from the link I stated above. I still see it up there.
>
> ftp:// /pub/davis/slang/ /
>
>> $ cd
>> $ mkdir cvs
>> $ cd cvs
>> $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ :/cvsroot/slrn login
>> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ :/cvsroot/slrn co -P slrn
>
> English, please. What am I getting myself into with that.

This will get you the latest Version of slrn. You could also get that
one from

/thw/slrn/packages/

as a file. This might save some bandwidth for you.

>> strongly recommend you install Thomas Weigner's patches as well
>> so you get all the UTF-8 goodness at the same time.
>
> I don't think UTF-8 really interests me, Troy.

You'll kind of run into UTF-8 automatically, maybe it's just not so
obvious. With the latest version of slrn it uses iconv for charset
conversion, iconv internally converts everything from and to UTF-8
(as far as I understood it).

BTW, my patches do not only fix that charset stuff, but also some other
issues.

Cheers,

Thomas