From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens (jbn@forestfield.org)                               
Subject: Re: slrn macro problems                                               
Newsgroups: news.software.readers                                              
Date: 2000/10/14                                                               

Anita Lewis wrote:
> loading /home/ajlewis2/News/macros/onekey-score.sl
> S-Lang Error: Undefined Name: implements is undefined
> S-Lang Error: Undefined Name: called from line 87, file:
> /home/ajlewis2/News/macros/onekey-score.sl

You might have linked your slrn with an older version of S-Lang but that
wouldn't explain why something would _stop_ working when it worked before.
'implements' is used to (re)name an S-Lang namespace.  It didn't exist in
older versions of S-Lang.

Maybe line 87 of onekey-score.sl might use the keyword 'implements' in a way
that is syntactically incorrect.  It's hard to say without seeing the code.

> Last night I did try compiling 0.9.6.4 I believe it was.  I saved the slrn
> executable for this version and put the executable from .4 in /usr/bin and
> tried it.  The macros failed so I commented them out. Then I tried to
> rebuild a thread and that failed as it did previously with the executable
> from the rpm.

Some RPMs have code in them that John E. Davis did not personally write or
oversee.  It's best to get the latest S-Lang and slrn from JED's FTP site
<URL:ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/> and recompile both yourself.  This way
you know you're dealing with the same source code as everyone else.