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- From: bob@amscons.amscons.com (Bob Amstadt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Additional library directories
- Message-ID: <92121610243@amscons.amscons.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 07:48:16 GMT
- References: <9212142463@fcshome.UUCP>
- Organization: Amstadt Consulting Group
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- fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- : tools helped a lot, they couldn't fix the broken shell. Some of the
- : final problems that caused me to give up were just that--broken shell.
- : Simple shellscripts that just didn't do the right thing. Sometimes
- : blatantly wrong. Sometimes just spew out error messages.
-
- Yep, I saw the same thing and gave up after only a couple of
- days. I'm running WNEWS here and it works great. It is missing
- quite a bit, but it does everything you need to receive
- news and post news. I don't plan on feeding any other sites.
- So, the features that are missing don't matter much to me.
-
- If anyone can tell me how to receive UUCP transmissions at 9600
- baud with MNP 5 without the ever so frequent "lost packets", I'd
- be glad to once again struggle with C-News, but for now I'll
- work on the more annoying problems.
-