Subj : Soupgate / Spoon To : Vincent Coen From : Sean Rima Date : Tue Jun 30 2020 04:54 pm 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 --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: A Destination in the Sun (2:263/1) .