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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: gnews and moderated newsgroups
- Message-ID: <9207287656@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:18:43 GMT
- References: <9207260813.30@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Organization: umunk (private)
- Lines: 48
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
-
- rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- : In article <920725204@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- : >bob@allan.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani) writes:
- : >: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- : >[...]
- : I've been meaning to grab the cnews sources. You know, the worst part is
- : going to be hacking the scripts. Specifically sendbatches, inews, and
- : anne.jones. I've been using sh from 3.1.0 to run my old cnews.
-
- Anne.jones is gone with the performance release. The README says that
- most part of the shell scripts is rewritten to C (*performance* release:-)
- and the rest is hacked, to be more portable.
-
- : I'm hacking on bash as a possible sh replacement. It should execute the cnews
- : scripts without editing. It worked fine under the alpha release, but I'm now
- [...]
-
- Would be fine to use bash, if the scripts don't run.
-
- : >I've requested TRN 2.0 and it comes with patches to 2.1 and 2.2.
- : >Unfortunately the patches can't be installed with the patch program,
- [...]
-
- : What is the special patch program?
-
- From the header of the patches:
- "To apply this, either use a unified version of patch (patch 12u - 12u5)
- or use the unipatch filter"
- I've never heared of this, some with an idea?
-
- : >: My favorite news-reader is always NN. It's ability to mark interesting
- : >: articles and reading them only is a big feature (for me).
- : >:
- : >: Anyone has some experience with TIN?
- : >
- : >I'm running tin 1.1 PL11 for two weeks now. What are your questions?
- ^urgs, typing error, I'm running PL4, sorry.
-
- : I may give tin a shot.
-
- I've send it to MWC, maybee you'll find it on MWCBBS in the next days.
- It's also ready to download from my system.
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