PLOR means Prosa Linux Offline Reader
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.
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
unpack plor.tgz wherever you want:
gzip -d plor.tgz
tar -xvf plor.tar
now you can remove plor.tar;
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.
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
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.