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From: [e-mail] (Mark Linimon)
Subject: Changes to C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 07:10:49 GMT
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--- nsbcnews.pp    Fri Mar  4 17:39:12 1994
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! Newsgroups: news.software.b
! X-Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.answers
  Subject: C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Followup-To: poster
  Reply-To: [e-mail]
  Summary: Answers to frequently asked questions about C News (periodic posting)
  X-Posting-Frequency: every 4 weeks

  Archive-name: news/software/b/cnews
! Version: 1.03 (October 1993)
! Last-Modified: Thu Sep 16 15:49:08 EDT 1993

  This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
  in using, installing, maintaining, and interfacing to the C News software
--- 1,14 ----
! Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.answers
  Subject: C News Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  Followup-To: poster
  Reply-To: [e-mail]
  Summary: Answers to frequently asked questions about C News (periodic posting)
  X-Posting-Frequency: every 4 weeks

  Archive-name: news/software/b/cnews
! Version: 1.08 (March 1994)
! Last-Modified: Fri Mar  4 17:38:12 EST 1994

  This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
  in using, installing, maintaining, and interfacing to the C News software
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*** 17,23 ****
  A companion posting, "news.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
  <[e-mail]>, complements
  this one by covering general topics that frequently recur on this group.
! Yet another posting, "Introduction to news.software.b"
  <[e-mail]>, serves as an
  introduction to the group.

--- 17,23 ----
  A companion posting, "news.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
  <[e-mail]>, complements
  this one by covering general topics that frequently recur on this group.
! Yet another posting, "News.software.b: Introduction to news.software.b"
  <[e-mail]>, serves as an
  introduction to the group.

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  Subject: Table of contents.

      Subject: What is C News?
!     Subject: What is the release status of C News?  Where can I get it?
      Subject: What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?
      Subject: Isn't installing C News troublesome?
      Subject: I'm trying to compile C News under SCO and I ...
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  Subject: Table of contents.

      Subject: What is C News?
!     Subject: What is the current release status of C News?  Where can I get it?
!     Subject: When will the next release of C News be?  What will change?
      Subject: What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?
      Subject: Isn't installing C News troublesome?
      Subject: I'm trying to compile C News under SCO and I ...
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--- 50,56 ----
      Subject: Why does C News drop non-conforming articles?
      Subject: Is there documentation to aid converting from B News to C News?
      Subject: Is there documentation about the theory behind C News?
+     Subject: When should I upgrade my current release of C News?
      Subject: Contributions to C News FAQ.

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! Subject: What is the release status of C News?  Where can I get it?

  Henry Spencer:
  The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by
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! Subject: What is the current release status of C News?  Where can I get it?

  Henry Spencer:
  The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by
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  *new* *release* , not just an update to earlier ones -- there are no patches
  to bring an earlier release up to date with it, you have to get the whole
  release.  Major reorganizations, initiated in the Performance Release and to
! be completed in the forthcoming Cleanup Release (tentative date: autumn 1993),
! make release of patches against earlier versions impractical.]

  ------------------------------

  Subject: What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?

  First, consult the manual pages and descriptions in doc/trouble.  (If you
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  *new* *release* , not just an update to earlier ones -- there are no patches
  to bring an earlier release up to date with it, you have to get the whole
  release.  Major reorganizations, initiated in the Performance Release and to
! be completed in the forthcoming Cleanup Release (see below), make release of
! patches against earlier versions impractical.]

  ------------------------------

+ Subject: When will the next release of C News be?  What will change?
+
+ The next release, to be known as the Cleanup Release, is still in alpha
+ testing.  As a great deal of rewriting, speed enhancements, and new
+ features have been added, the alpha cycle has been quite long.  Patience
+ is still called for, however.
+
+ The major changes, as announced by Geoff and Henry at the Winter USENIX
+ News BOF, are as follows:
+
+  -- There will be no patches from earlier releases; the source tree
+     changes too much.
+
+  -- NOV will be integrated.  (It seems that NOV is quickly becoming the
+     accepted standard in popular reader and transport implementations).
+
+  -- Expiration has been speeded up.
+
+  -- Most of the build process has been moved into the Makefiles.  The
+     doit.* scripts are obsolete.
+
+  -- The "what kind of Unix"(TM somebody) question is gone, replaced by
+     better questions about what routines are available.
+
+  -- The newgroup and rmgroup auto-handlers are better; they allow
+     permissions to be controlled by person X group.  (Note that as
+     my notes recall, Henry claims these are designed more to protect
+     against accidents, than any attempt at authentication).
+
+  -- delgroup now removes the spool directory as well -- but only
+     *after* the articles expire.
+
+  -- All trouble reporting goes through one shell file, for easier
+     customization.
+
+  -- C News will install out-of-the-box on BSD/386 release 1.1.
+
+  -- Newsrun and the locking schemes are more sophisticated.
+
+  -- gzip support for batch compression is included.
+
+  -- contrib/ contains a transport-only NNTP implementation (*not* the
+     "reference" implementation).  This is designed to be useful for
+     transport, but not reading and posting, news.
+
+  -- Timezone handling changes.  Signed numeric timezones and military
+     timezones will be accepted; some *currently* accepted dates which
+     aren't RFC-compliant will no longer be accepted.
+
+  -- batchparms can include parameters to compress.
+
+  -- The middle field of the history file gets a third subfield: the size
+     of the article.
+
+  -- The documentation will lag behind, as usual, unless volunteer(s)
+     step up to the plate.
+
+ ------------------------------
+
  Subject: What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?

  First, consult the manual pages and descriptions in doc/trouble.  (If you
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+ Suof C News?
+
+ If you're running something before the Performance Release, you should
+ probably upgrade to it as soon as possible, as any number of bugs have
+ been fixed.  If you're running the Performance Release, you should probably
+ wait until the Cleanup Release is out and has any initial rough edges
+ knocked off of it.
+
+ In terms of _functionally_ being compatible with earlier versions, _all_
+ new versions are; however, as Henry has stated in response to
+
+ > Must everyone chnage to the lastest C news at the stroke of
+ > midnight on Oct. 30, 1994, by proclamation of Henry Spencer?
+
+ Henry:
+
+ > Life would be a lot simpler if I could issue such a proclamation...
+
+ ------------------------------
+
  Subject: Contributions to the C News FAQ.

  Thanks to the following for contributions, additions, corrections, and updates:
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      Mark Brader <[e-mail]>
      Geoff Collyer <[e-mail]>
      A. Bryan Curnutt <uhura1![e-mail]>
+     Bill Davidson <[e-mail]>
      Ken Kutz <[e-mail]>
      David C Lawrence <[e-mail]>
      Tom Limoncelli <[e-mail]>
--
Mark Linimon / Lonesome Dove Computing Services / [e-mail]
         "He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow,
          and he played a little tune called the New Cut Road."