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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: gnews and moderated newsgroups
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:45:09 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9207310745.11@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9207260813.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <9207287656@umunk.GUN.de>
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- In article <9207287656@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- >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.
-
- The real bugger is inews.
-
- >: 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.
-
- When I get bash working again. :-)
-
- >: >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?
-
- I'll troll the Internet for it.
-
- >: >: 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.
-
- Sounds good.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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