wan@gatech.UUCP (Peter N. Wan) (02/22/84)
Does anyone have a version of B news (2.10.1 would be preferable) that
runs on 68000-based UNIX systems? There is a site here that is having
problems with getting news up on their system because of core dumps
(probably from assumptions about pointer and other data type lengths).
Please mail me responses. Thanks.
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ARPA : wan.gatech@CSNet-Relay CSNET : wan@gatechsmk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (02/23/84)
If you take 2.10.1 news and the few fixes that have gone out since
it was introduced, news will run on a 68000. The snoopy site here
is a 68000 news site that I used mainly to test a port. You should
make sure that 1) the C library works OK, like allowing the + in "r+",
and that you have a good <ndir.h> (any one made within this year seems
good enough) -- note the bugs I found in net.bugs. There was one
small compile problem in virtterm.c (for vnews) that was due to a
compiler problem I found, but the fix (to virtterm.c, not the compiler
unfortunately) was easy. If your compiler is different than ours,
try locating instructions like:
movb a?,<ea>
where ? is 0 to 7. These are illegal on the 68000 and some compilers
may not catch them.
One other thing is that if you are cross compiling (especially on 4.2),
remember to include headers for the port and NOT for 4.2 along the way.
I got burned more than once on different FILE size in <stdio.h> and
different stat in <stat.h>.
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