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   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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