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- This is the OS/2 port of TIN.
-
- To build TIN, you need the following:
-
- - IBM C Set/2 or Borland C++ for OS/2
- - PDCurses 2.0 build for the compiler of your choice
-
- For the NNTP version of TIN:
- - IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 CSD UN37938 or higher,
- - IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 Programmers's Kit CSD UN37942 of higher, with
- modifications as outlined below.
-
- To run it you need:
-
- - set environment variables
- To read news via NNTP
- - TCP/IP access to an nntp server,
- - some free space on a HPFS or NFS volume (FAT will not work, due to 8.3 file
- name restriction)
-
- optional:
- - uudecode and uushar utilities
- Note: uudecode is posted regularly to comp.binaries.os2 in the
- "OS/2 Binaries Starter's Kit" by mykek@miller.cs.uwm.edu
- (OS/2 binaries moderator)
-
- Building TIN for OS/2
-
- 1. Make sure that all source files (*.c and *.h) have <CR><LF> as their
- line-ends. If not, use 'unix2os2 < original >newfile' to correct this.
-
- 2. Select the makefile appropriate for your compiler:
- Makefile.bcc for Borland C++ for OS/2
- Makefile.icc for IBM's C Set/2 Compiler
- Note: Borland C is prefered. You may have to make some adjustments when you
- use IBM's C.
-
- 3. Edit the makefile, changing location of include and library files to
- match your installation
-
- 4. Correct bugs in \tcpip\include\netdb.h
- find all occurrences of 'char *' that are not followed by '_Seg16' and add
- '_Seg16'. For example change
- SERVENT * _Seg16 _Far16 _Cdecl getservbyname( char *, char * );
- to
- SERVENT * _Seg16 _Far16 _Cdecl getservbyname( char * _Seg16, char * _Seg16 );
- You will also correct the prototype for getservbyport and getprotobyname.
-
- 5. If you are using Borland C++, edit the TCP/IP header files:
- in netdb.h, netlib.h sys/socket.h do the following:
- - find the #ifndef __32BIT__ near the top of each file
-
- - change the conditional section as follows:
- #ifndef __32BIT__
- #ifdef __TURBOC__
- #define _Packed
- #define _Seg16 _far16
- #define _Far16 _far16
- #define _Cdecl _cdecl
- #define __32BIT__
- #else
- #define _Packed
- #define _Seg16
- #define _Far16
- #define _Cdecl
- #endif
- #endif
-
- - add the following below the second #endif
- #ifdef __TURBOC__
- #define FAR16P _far16 *
- #else
- #define FAR16P * _Seg16
- #endif
-
- - throughout the files change '* _Seg16' and '* _Seg16' to 'FAR16P'
- After these changes, the TCP/IP package can be used with the Borland C
- compiler.
-
- 6. If you are using Borland C++ type 'make -f makefile.bcc'
- If you are using IBM's C Set/2 type 'nmake -f makefile.icc'
- Ignore warnings, especially re _Cdecl and _Seg16 re-definition.
-
-
- Using TIN under OS/2
-
- To run the local newsspool version, start TIN. To run the NNTP version,
- start TIN -r, or rename TIN.EXE to RTIN.EXE and run RTIN.
-
- TIN runs in an OS/2 windowed session. It is not a PM application. TIN needs to
- know who you are, in order to create headers for posts and mail correctly.
- There are two ways in which you can specify this information:
-
- - through environment variables
- - through a Unix-style passwd file
-
- Environment Variables
-
- If only one person is using TIN to post articles, set the following variables
- in your config.sys file:
-
- USER userid set USER=andreas
- REALNAME Your Full Name set REALNAME=Andreas Wrede
- HOME \your\home\directory set HOME=c:\home\andreas
-
- Note that you HOME directory must be on a HPFS or NFS disk. FAT will
- probably not work, due to the 8.3 file name restriction.
-
-
- Unix-style passwd file
-
- If a number of users use TIN to post articles, for example via telnet to the OS/2
- machine, it might be easier to use the Unix-style passwd file. The passwd file is
- located in the directory set by the environment variable ETC, usually c:\tcpip\etc.
- The same passwd file is used by ftp and telnet (via loginunx.exe). See your TCP/IP
- User's Guide for more information.
-
- TIN does no use the password field, but the full user name, the home directory and
- the shell are taken from the passwd file entry. The environment variable USER is
- used to locate the correct entry in the passwd file. If it is not set, an error
- message is issued by TIN. Two sample passwd entries follow:
-
- andreas:x:1:1:Andreas Wrede:/home/andreas:/os2/cmd.exe
- guest:x:2:2:Guest User:/home/guest:/ksh/ksh
-
-
- Other Environment Variables
-
- Required for NNTP version:
-
- NNTPSERVER - either the fully qualified domain name of the nntp server or
- the dotted internet address of the nntp server.
-
- HOSTNAME - specifies the name of your machine. It is used to identify your
- machine to the nntp server.
-
- Required for local newspool version:
-
- TINSPOOLDIR - path to the root of the news spool
-
- TINLIBDIR - path to news control: active file, newsgroups file etc.
-
- TINNOVROOTDIR - path to overview files
-
- Optional:
- LINES - specify how many lines you display window has. If LINES is not set,
- TIN will use the actual height of the display window. You might need
- to set this if you run TIN from a telnet session.
-
- EDITOR -
- VISUAL - specify the editor to use for composing articles and replies.
- Defaults to 'epm'.
-
- SHELL - specify command process to use for shell escapes - defaults to
- whatever is set by COMSPEC
-
-
- For other environment variables, see ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES in tin.man.
-
- FTP sites that carry the latest version of tin source are:
-
- Reference site:
- Germany [192.76.144.129] ftp.Germany.EU.net:pub/news/tin
-
- Mirror sites:
- UK [146.169.2.1] src.doc.ic.ac.uk:computing/usenet/software/readers/tin
- USA [131.210.1.4] ftp.uwp.edu:pub/tin
- Oz [130.194.9.1] yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au:pub/tin
-
- CHANGES tin v1.2 PL0 -> tin 1.2 PL1 [OS/2]
-
- 1) Olaf Mittelstaedt <mstaedt@eagle.rz.fh-ulm.de>
- BUG. tin needs c:\tmp on a HPFS partition
- FIX. use envvar TMPDIR for location of tmp directory
-
- 2) Malkani Sanjay <sanjay@uxmail.ust.hk>
- ASK. support for local newsspool
- ADD. support for local newsspool
-
- 3) Richard Stanton <stanton@haas.berkeley.edu>
- BUG. Cannot use C:\ as HOME.
- FIX. checking for trailing '\' in path before adding '\'
-
- 4) Andreas Wrede <andreas@scilink.org>
- BUG. archive not placed in "Archive: " directory
- FIX. changed S_IFDIR check in save.c
-
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Andreas Wrede (andreas@scilink.org)