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- From: karl@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de (Karl Sarnow)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Best news systems & readers enquiry
- Message-ID: <X2HBqB7w165w@dadoka.h.ni.schule.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 13:35:32 EDT
- References: <1992Aug28.104937.3718@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Organization: Karls Emergency Mailbox
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- mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
-
- > kilroy@acme.gen.nz wrote:
- >
- > >As far as what software, I'd recommend the current Coherent-ported release o
- > >C News, in terms of robustness and reliability I've found it to be excellent
- > >We could possibily consider the recent C News performance release if
- > >someone's ported it to 3.2. Most of it works fine, we'd just need to fine
- > >tune some of the scripts to fix some nagging incompatibilities (I won't call
- > >them bugs, Geoff Collyer might be reading this and they're not C News'
- > >fault). I've been running C News happily for some months now, and I'll help
- > >out on any work needed to get scripts working reliably.
- >
- > This is completely contradictory to my experience with the Coherent
- > "port" of cnews. I followed the directions to the letter and it simply
- > does not work. I challenge anyone to try to run that cnews port
- > according to the installation instructions. Perhaps it is workable
- > if you are an experienced programmer and you do a bit of hacking at
- > installation time, but unfortunately I am not proficient enough to
- > do that.
-
- Exactly my experience!!!
-
- >
- > If there is something I am missing, and the cnews port can indeed
- > be installed with few hassles, I'd love to hear from you.
- >
- > Re: cnews performance release
- >
- > Wouldn't it make more sense to port this to Coh 4.0 than try to
- > hack the old cnews to work?
- >
-
- Sounds familiar to me. The experts might continue hacking different
- Newssystems/Newsreaders. But we should have one News/REader-system as
- easy to install as uucp-mail. And by god: That is hard enough for newcomers!
-
- Karl
-
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