root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (08/06/87)
You'll find a copy of the news source code on conexch in
/usr/spool/uucppublic/xen.news211b.Z that will run under
Xenix. Here's a line for your L.sys/Systems file:
conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp
Best Regards,
Larry Dighera
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UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!mickey!conexch!sysop Login: nuucproth@macom1.UUCP (dennis paul roth) (08/20/87)
A co-worker here, in a fit of enthusiasm, down loaded xen.news211b.Z
to here despite the fact that we already had news 2.11 B patchlevel 8
on this machine and I had already installed news 2.11 B patchlevel 8
on a Xenix system. I decided to unpack and do a diff on xen.211b.Z
to see if the author had found any bugs or done anything smarter or
better than I. What I found disappointed me. Its a modified version of a beta
test release of the news without manuals or documentaion. Since the time of
that release there has been the Official Release and 8 patches released. A
large number of bugs have been fixed and new features introduced by
the patches. Using a hacked beta test version and having to discover
and fix the bugs already fixed by the patches is an execise in masochism.
This incident has spurred me to finish something that I promised myself
I would do a long time ago. I have made a patch 8X and a localize.xenix
script. Patch 8X requires that you have applied the first eight patches
to the news before you apply it. It makes the minor changes to the code
that XENIX requires. Localize.xenix creates a Xenix Makefile and a
defs.h file for a Xenix System. Armed with the USENET Version B
Installation manual check that things are defined the way you want
them and then compile with make(1) command. Su(1) and type "make install".
The whole installation process should take less than 2 hours, not days of
fruitless hacking.
So for those who want to install news 2.11 B on their Xenix machines let
me suggest a method which is most likely to succeed and require the least
effort. First establish a mail and uucp connection to your proposed USENET
feed. Then get the manuals, documents, and source of the official release
along with the eight patches from your proposed news feed. They should
have them. If for some strange reason they don't have them, you should
be able to get them from your local backbone site. As a last resort, and
only as a last resort, in the case where you can't get the source some
where else, send me a message and I will give you instructions on how
to dial up and uucp the files from my employer's machine. I do not intend
to make my employer's machine a news 211 B source distribution point for the
whole world. Then get a copy of patch#8X and localize.xenix, which I am posting
to news.sources.b tonight. Read the USENET Version B Installation manual,
apply the patches, and you should have little difficulty in bringing up
USENET news on a Xenix machine.
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