ptrubey@sce.UUCP (Phil Trubey) (02/17/88)
Since there seem to be some CNews users out here in Ontario... What is the current status of CNews? Is it still a shaky alpha version? Or has it progressed to 'less than a week of fiddling before relative stability' stage? What systems does it run on (We've got a System V Microport (gasp!))? The reason I ask is that I have the dubious pleasure of bring up news again on my Microport box, and I was wondering how long away a stable version of CNews was... Phil Trubey School of Computer Science, Carleton University CDNnet: ptrubey@sce.carleton.cdn BITNET: ptrubey@carleton UUCP: ptrubey@sce (..!watmath!clan!ptrubey or !watmath!sce!ptrubey)
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (02/19/88)
> What is the current status of CNews? Is it still a shaky alpha > version? Or has it progressed to 'less than a week of fiddling > before relative stability' stage? It reached pretty much that stage very shortly after the alpha release. If you consider the five C News Bulletins to be part of said release, the alpha release was solid and runnable right from the start. It's not well documented, and figuring out how to install it can be a chore, but it works well despite some remaining quirks. There are parts of the Toronto net where it's hard to find a B news now. > What systems does it run on (We've got a System V Microport (gasp!))? Most anything. It runs better on a system which has dbm, but the crude dbm simulation we provide runs (I am told) surprisingly well. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry