sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com (Steve Scott) (02/09/91)
I am about to attempt to build C News for a new set of HP-UX 7.0 Apollo nodes. Problem is: Where are the latest sources? What is the latest version/patch level? Are there extensive modifications required to make it play on hp-ux? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Scott | Internet: sscott@mot.com | | Fort Worth Research and Development Center | UUCP: csccat!camdev!sscott | | Cellular Infrastructure Group | Internal: TX14/1D | | Radio Telephone Systems Group | Voice: (817) 232-6317 | | Motorola, Inc. | Fax: (817) 232-6081 | | The opinions contained herein are STRICTLY my own | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (02/10/91)
In article <361@camdev.comm.mot.com?> sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com (Steve Scott) writes: >... Where are the latest sources? The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by anonymous ftp from cs.toronto.edu in file pub/c-news/c-news.Z (a shell archive) or pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z (a tar archive) and the complete set of patches can also be found on cs.toronto.edu in the directory pub/c-news/patches. FTP during our peak hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is not encouraged. >What is >the latest version/patch level? The latest patch was 15-Dec-1990. I'd hoped to get another out -- some small fixes and the usual run of routine upgrades -- before I left for Boskone, but that now looks unlikely, so prognosis is that the next one will be late this month. >Are there extensive modifications >required to make it play on hp-ux? Not that anybody's told us in particular... assuming you have a working shell. If you can run something like this: x=y if test " $x" != " y" then echo oops fi and not have it say "oops", you should be all right; otherwise you're in for tedious surgery on shell scripts to work around this bug, which HP appears to have introduced in the course of trying to make the shell 8-bit clean. Maybe they haven't propagated it onto the Apollos... -- "Maybe we should tell the truth?" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Surely we aren't that desperate yet." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry