Re: tlug: tin 1.4 with Japanese

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998 craigoda@example.com wrote:

> From: Ken Harada <kenhrd@example.com>
> Subject: Re: tlug: tin 1.4 with Japanese
> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:01:02 +0900
> 
> kenhrd> craigoda@example.com <craigoda@example.com> wrote on Thu, 21 May 1998 
> kenhrd> 16:18:26 +0900:-
> kenhrd> > Hello,
> kenhrd> > I was reading through the tin mailing list and I stumbled upon a person using
> kenhrd> > an unpatched version of tin 1.4 with Chinese.  This made me think that perhaps
> kenhrd> > it can support Japanese with he proper configuration flags at compile time.
> kenhrd> > Has anyone gotten unpatched tin newsreader to display Japanese properly?
> kenhrd> 
> kenhrd> Though I have not used, I found a "ktin1.4" package in PJE.  Isn't it a
> kenhrd> Kanji-nized tin?
> 
> 
> 
> Ken,
> thank you for your information.  ktin1.4 is based on tin1.2.   The 
> binary package with PJE is linked to libcurses.so.1 and unfortunately 
> won't run on the systems I've used because libcurses.so.1 is fairly
> old.  Most systems use ncurses3.4 now.  The PJE packages come with
> source code.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to compile the 
> package from source.  The patch for ktin is good and offers good 
> Japanese support.  Unfortunately, it looks like there has not
> been ktin development since 1993.
> 
> The development of a unified tin appears to be ongoing.  However, I have
> not got it to support Japanese properly yet.
> 

Once again, TurboLinux to the rescue:

ftp.pht.co.jp:/pub/turbolinuxj/1.4/TurboUpgrade/RPMS/ktin-1.5.1.22-1TLJ.i386.rpm

requires libtermcap.so.2, libncurses.so.3.0, libc.so.5

Let me know how it goes.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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