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- From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: various ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.112513.3726@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 15:25:13 GMT
- References: <BtKEHJ.Gu2@csn.org> <92082919473@umunk.GUN.de>
- Organization: SPC Community Access System
- Lines: 50
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- In article <92082919473@umunk.GUN.de>, udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- > tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
- > [...]
- > : Special question for Udo- yousay that Wnews is "much easier to install
- > : than Cnews". Would it be on the order I outlined above, and if so where
- > : could I anonymous ftp it?
- > [...]
- > Under Coherent 3.x make install and editing of the system files was
- > enough to install it here on my system. Also I've hacked all the
- > man pages so that they'll format nicely using Coherents man macros.
- > I've also send this man files to MWC, maybe they have added them to
- > the WNEWS distribution on MWCBBS. However, I haven't recompile the
- > package under 4.0 yet, I'm still running the 286 binaries. Maybe
- > there are problems if you try to install it under 4.0.
- > Sorry but I don't know where to ftp it because I can't ftp. As far
- > as I know it's not on raven, the only ftp site for Coherent.
-
- No, it is not. I just checked.
-
- >
- > The last time I've readed much about trouble installing a news package,
- > news reader and elm. I could set up a floppy disk or two with all this
- > stuff ready to install while answering some simple questions like
- > the installation of Coherent. But this is really a lot of work and
- > I don't want to do it for two or three users. Also Coherent is my
- > "play ground" at home, not my business, so I can't spend so much time
- > with it as I would like to do.
- > So my question: how many Coherent 4.0 users are out there who wants
- > to get plug and play news and mail for Coherent 4.0 with printed
- > manuals on a floppy disk distribution?
-
- This is a great idea. To be perfectly honest, I would be willing
- to pay you to do it since I have spent so much time recently
- (with little luck) trying to get my news system working again.
- If you can get the disk to me, I can test it, put it in an
- internet-friendly package, and post the whole lot at Raven.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Chris
-
- p.s. Please excuse the excess quoting. As mynews system is
- currently dead, I'm stuck using a strange vms system. :)
-
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