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    From Sean Rima@2:222/2 to All on Tue Jun 30 01:26:28 2020
    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a command line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's sister app SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over my head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well gone. But it is a good app

    Sean

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Sean Rima on Tue Jun 30 15:48:58 2020
    Hello Sean!

    Tuesday June 30 2020 01:26, you wrote to All:

    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a command
    line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's sister app
    SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over my
    head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well gone.
    But it is a good app

    To build it run the spoon.sh script but if you are win then look at content and modify i to run on your system.


    As to why it might be failing ==== if you do compile it ::

    Look at file spoon.err for why but here it shows multi lines similar to :


    n file included from spoon.h:115,
    from spoon.cpp:40:
    socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
    #include "iostream.h"
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    In file included from spoon.h:115,
    from config.cpp:38:
    socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
    #include "iostream.h"


    Needless to say I do not have iostream.h but it does ring a bell just cant remember from where .

    Just did a search - here is is on a old partition and relates to fpc (free pascal compiler) so not helpfull.


    Does not help that what docs are with it do not indicate if any extra packages / libraries are needed.



    Vincent

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  • From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to Sean Rima on Tue Jun 30 17:15:00 2020
    On 30.6.2020 2.26, Sean Rima : All

    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a command
    line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's sister app
    SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over my
    head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well gone.
    But it is a good app

    I have been running Soupgate for many many years in OS/2. :)

    Tried once to compile it in linux, but no luck.

    'Tommi

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  • From Sean Rima@2:263/1 to Tommi Koivula on Tue Jun 30 16:30:06 2020

    Hello Tommi!

    30 Jun 20 17:15, you wrote to me:

    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a
    command line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's sister
    app SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over
    my head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well
    gone. But it is a good app

    I have been running Soupgate for many many years in OS/2. :)

    Tried once to compile it in linux, but no luck.

    I got Soupgate to import but HPT says there is an error with the packet

    =-=-=-=-=-=-=
    1 16:31:12 Start
    1 16:31:12 Start tossing...
    7 16:31:12 pkt: /home/bbbs/fido/inbound/00000000.tos [2:263/1.2]
    A 16:31:12 There are 163602 bytes of unknown data at the end of pkt file!
    A 16:31:12 Renaming pkt/arc to .bad
    4 16:31:12 Statistics:
    4 16:31:12 arc: 0 netMail: 0 echoMail: 0 CC: 0
    4 16:31:12 pkt's: 1 dupe: 0 passthru: 0 exported: 0
    4 16:31:12 msgs: 0 bad: 0 saved: 0 empty: 0
    4 16:31:12 Input: 0.00 mails/sec Output: 0.00 mails/sec
    4 16:31:12 79913.09 kb/sec
    4 16:31:12 159.83 kb total, processed in 0.002 seconds
    4 16:31:12 Areas summary:
    1 16:31:12 End tossing
    1 16:31:12 End

    =-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    Sean


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  • From Sean Rima@2:263/1 to Tommi Koivula on Tue Jun 30 16:31:56 2020

    Hello Tommi!

    30 Jun 20 17:15, you wrote to me:

    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a
    command line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's sister
    app SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over
    my head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well
    gone. But it is a good app

    I have been running Soupgate for many many years in OS/2. :)

    Tried once to compile it in linux, but no luck.

    I get too many errors in Spoon trying to compile it.

    Sean


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  • From Sean Rima@2:263/1 to Vincent Coen on Tue Jun 30 16:54:16 2020

    Hello Vincent!

    30 Jun 20 15:48, you wrote to me:

    Hello Sean!

    Tuesday June 30 2020 01:26, you wrote to All:

    I don't know if anyone remembers Tom Torfs Soupgate. It was a
    command line program to import SOUP files, usually from it's
    sister app SPOON.

    I have the source, but cannot get SPOON to compile. It is way over
    my head. I know that the days of importing NNTP are probally well
    gone. But it is a good app

    To build it run the spoon.sh script but if you are win then look at content and modify i to run on your system.


    As to why it might be failing ==== if you do compile it ::

    Look at file spoon.err for why but here it shows multi lines similar
    to :


    n file included from spoon.h:115,
    from spoon.cpp:40:
    socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
    #include "iostream.h"
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    In file included from spoon.h:115,
    from config.cpp:38:
    socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory
    #include "iostream.h"


    Needless to say I do not have iostream.h but it does ring a bell just
    cant remember from where .

    Just did a search - here is is on a old partition and relates to fpc
    (free pascal compiler) so not helpfull.


    Does not help that what docs are with it do not indicate if any extra packages / libraries are needed.


    Turns out you have to change iostream.h to iostream and fstream.h to fstream in the hpp file and in the socket.cpp add below include <socket.hpp>
    using namespace std;


    Sean


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