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- From: hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Re: uucico sd.1 Part 1/1 (repost)
- Message-ID: <A4Qes*Va1@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:09:08 EST
- References: <9212281813.AA21761@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> <291292u1316@hamburg.uucp>
- <Nezds*eQ0@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca> <bobl.as08@bobsbox.rent.com>
- Organization: Phaedra V
- Lines: 61
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- In article <bobl.as08@bobsbox.rent.com>, Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin writes:
-
- > > ARN 0.72 config file. A horrible example is the Amiga port of tin. Not
- > > only does it want to use the AmigaUUCP postnews program with it's
- > > funny input format, but it needs to find it in UUCP:C! i.e. There's no
- > > reasonable way to use the Amiga tin binary with Cnews. Which is a
- > > shame, because tin would be a great newsreader to have a proper port of.
-
- > That's funny. I'm running CNews here under AmigaUUCP and I can read
- > news just fine with the binary Amiga port of TIN. In fact I've been
-
- Reread what I wrote. I didn't say there was any problem with reading
- news. The problem is that it expects the AmigaUUCP *postnews* program.
-
- > fact I'll fire it up after this and post from TIN...
-
- With what posting program? What port of Cnews? Which version of tin?
- I bet you're still using the AmigaUUCP batcher and the articles aren't
- going out properly locally and to the sites in your sys file.
-
- > I may be mistaken but in the UULIB:Config file you can specify what you
- > want to run as postnews and rnews. I only changed the Rnews to point to
-
- Nice idea, but a check of the 1.16 sources (I haven't patched it to
- 1.18 yet because of the broken "no newline at end of file" patch
- files)) shows they do:
-
- #ifdef AMIGA
- sprintf (cp, "uucp:c/postnews %s", name);
- #else
- # ifdef INEWSDIR
- strcpy (buf, INEWSDIR);
- strcat (buf, "/");
- cp = &buf[strlen(buf)];
- # endif /* INEWSDIR */
- sprintf (cp, "inews -h < %s", name);
- #endif /* AMIGA */
-
- And the "%s" gets hacked elsewhere. The AmigaUUCP postnews program
- uses its own special argument format (Matt loves standards). I
- couldn't think of a quick hack to make a front end that would make
- standard inews look like it.
-
- For Cnews you want to do the latter. In fact, If I ever get around to
- fixing the patches to make the 1.18 sources properly, I'll probably
- just compile it with gcc in the normal Unix version, adding back any
- extra cool Amiga features like an AREXX port (which I don't think it has).
-
- > postnews to run relaynews instead in the same way. If it is hard coded,
- > then all I can say is that you may just have to rename relaynews to
- > postnews and put it in UUCP:c..that will work I suppose.
-
- Not a hope. How *did* you get posting working?
-
- --
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