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   Message 647 of 935   
   Sean Rima to Vincent Coen   
   Soupgate / Spoon   
   30 Jun 20 16:54:16   
   
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   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    
   using namespace std;   
      
      
   Sean   
      
      
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