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|    Sean Rima to Vincent Coen    |
|    Soupgate / Spoon    |
|    30 Jun 20 16:54:16    |
      REPLY: 2:250/1@fidonet 5efb52a3       MSGID: 2:263/1 5efb607c       CHRS: CP850 2       TZUTC: 0100       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-04-15               Hello Vincent!              30 Jun 20 15:48, you wrote to me:               VC> Hello Sean!               VC> 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               VC> To build it run the spoon.sh script but if you are win then look at        VC> content and modify i to run on your system.                      VC> As to why it might be failing ==== if you do compile it ::               VC> Look at file spoon.err for why but here it shows multi lines similar        VC> to :                      VC> n file included from spoon.h:115,        VC> from spoon.cpp:40:        VC> socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory        VC> #include "iostream.h"        VC> ^~~~~~~~~~~~        VC> compilation terminated.        VC> In file included from spoon.h:115,        VC> from config.cpp:38:        VC> socket.hpp:73:10: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory        VC> #include "iostream.h"                      VC> Needless to say I do not have iostream.h but it does ring a bell just        VC> cant remember from where .               VC> Just did a search - here is is on a old partition and relates to fpc        VC> (free pascal compiler) so not helpfull.                      VC> Does not help that what docs are with it do not indicate if any extra        VC> 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 |
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