PLOR: What is PLOR?

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## 1. What is PLOR?

## 1.1 What PLOR stand for?

PLOR means Pluto Linux Offline Reader

## 1.2 What it does?

As the name implies it is a news & mail off-line reader; in particular it reads qwk or soup packet generate by uqwk program (or some other similar packet programs).

Now it is capable to read only soup packet with bugged reply capabilities.

## 1.3 Where I can find PLOR?

The last version of PLOR can be found on:

ftp://ftp.pluto.linux.it/pub/pluto/devel

with name likes plor-???.tgz, where ??? stands for version number.

There should be a (possibly updated) version also, on sunsite:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/bbs/mail

## 1.4 How to compile plor and install

unpack plor.tgz wherever you want:

> `

>     gzip -d plor.tgz
>     tar -xvf plor.tar

> `

now you can remove plor.tar;

1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make' to compile the package.
3. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation.

There should be no problem in compiling plor; if there are any email us, please!

PLOR was compiled with `-ansi -pedantic` options of gcc; this should make PLOR some-what portable on other UNIX-like systems.

## 1.5 How to use plor

Take your soup (or qwk) packet and uncompress it in the plor directory; simply call 'plor' and follow the online instructions.

There won't be difficulties to use plor; if there are some, please let us know what kind of difficulties you found using plor.

Plor support some options:

- `-h` shows a little help screen
- `-p` this option is called ``plain output''; it makes plor to produced a plain output, without formatting it, or without adding anything else than the message; the message could then be formatted with a pager like `less`; this could be useful for someone who decide to make a front-end for plor
- `-c n` select conference number n
- `-m n` select message number n
- `-s` select soup mode
- `-q` select qwk mode (not yet implemented)

So if you want to see only the first message of the first conference in soup mode, and you want to have a plain output, because you like to have it formatted by less, use:

> `

>     plor -p -s -c 1 -m 1 | less

> `

## 1.6 FreeBSD

Yes. Even if PLOR is a Linux Offline Reader, it seems to run also on FreeBSD. Thanks to Tim Vanderhoek <\tthoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca\ for the port. Refer to him for any FreeBSD related problem with PLOR.

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