Slrn

Installation

From Ports

$ doas pkg_add slrn

Compiling

# First, download slrn to $HOME
cd ~/
wget "http://jedsoft.org/releases/slrn/slrn-1.0.3a.tar.bz2" # You can find the latest version
# Extract and install to ~/.local/ with SSL support
tar -xjvf slrn-1.0.3a.tar.bz2
cd slrn-1.0.3/
./configure --prefix "/home/$USER/.local" --with-ssl
make
make install
# Add slrn to $PATH
export PATH="/home/$USER/.local/bin:$PATH"
# Use slrn to connect to a SSL NNTP server
slrn -h snews://example.ircnow.org -p PORT --create

Usage

$ slrn -h snews://example.ircnow.org -p 563 --create