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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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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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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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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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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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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