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- From: edi@edefix.han.de (E. v. Pappenheim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: C News (was Re: gnews and moderated newsgroups)
- Message-ID: <Bs48CD.21I@edefix.han.de>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 20:17:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.200244.2456@acme.gen.nz>
- Organization: Private
- Lines: 33
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- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
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- kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- : rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- :
- : > In article <920725204@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- : >
- : > >Elm and NN are ported to 4.0, just runs fine. I'm thinking about porting
- : > >the latest C-News (Performance Release from May 2, 1992) to 4.0.
- : > >Is someone else working on this?
- : >
- : > 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.
- :
- : It may not be too bad, a lot of C News in the performance release has been
- : rewritten in C. I think anne.jones doesn't exist, all of inews is now in C.
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- I installed the May-2-1992 edition of Cnews on Coherent 4.0 beta. There have
- been some problem with the shellscripts, cause of some bugs in the beta sh.
- They have been reported and are fixed. Inews and rnews are still scripts, and
- relaynews moves all received news to bad, although they are unpacked
- propperly. So, if there is a more recent release, take this.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Ecki
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