chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (09/28/84)
Hey..whaddya know. Version 2.10.2 inews has the patch to workaround Eunice links (or the lack thereof). You will probably want to add a '-DVMS' for the CFLAGS in localize.sh. Also, there are some bugs in inews.c which need fixing. Unfortunately, I don't have an untruncated ifuncs.c yet, so I haven't been able to test my fix to inews. But, I've at least got it compiling now. Thought I'd send out what I've done so that other Eunice sites can be on the lookout for the problems. But keep in mind: I *have not* tested this particular fix--I only know that some similar fix will be required in these parts. Anyway...diffs follow. If any Eunice sites out there have gotten further along than I, drop me a line. I'd be interested in hearing what you've run into. (I'm sure there will need to be some hacks somewhere to get this all to work. At the very least I expect to find some unlinks which need some work to deal with the multiple revs.) 428,430d427 < #ifdef VMS < int f1, f2; < #endif 461c458 < f1 = open(ARTICLE, 0); --- > f1 = open(article, 0); 464c461 < write(f2, afline, BUFLEN); --- > write(f2, afline, r); -- Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara { idi|intelca|icalqa|kremvax|qubix|ucscc } ! t4test ! { chip|news }
chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (10/01/84)
Version 2.10.2 news has been running for almost two weeks now on one
of our Eunice machines. So, I have posted what it took to net.sources.
A couple of comments on what I've seen so far:
inews: running fine
expire: only run once, but looked like it ran OK
batch: looks good
vnews: definately buggy, but we don't use it, so I don't care (see note below)
readnews: only tried once or twice, but seemed to run (see note below)
postnews: seems to run (see note below)
sendbatch/unbatch: running fine
csendbatch/cunbatch: AAARGH!! I don't know who decided that cunbatch
had to be a seperate program instead of an rnews switch, but it
doesn't do us any good. Unless you have a source license, you
can't hack this into uuxqt. We don't. We can't. AAARGH!!
On readnews/vnews: We use Larry Wall's 'rn' news reader. Larry has
specifically designed it to run under Eunice. It is a great program.
Use it. (Please note...there are also some problems with 'rn' under
Eunice. I sent Larry my notes, so expect to see something from either
him or me on getting 'rn' going under Eunice.)
On postnews: I've written my own version. A long time ago I posted a
version which was a hack on Mark Horton's original postnews.c. Much of
the 2.10.2 postnews is from these programs. However, since I posted my
first version I've been making a lot of changes to it. When cleaned up,
I'll be glad to share it. Also included in the deal is a program to send
out mail replies with return path optomization.)
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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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