alan@numm.nu.oz (Alan Hargreaves) (02/07/90)
In article <1990Feb5.173359.9094@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <42J1N8Cxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>Yes, and installing CNEWS on anything that's not close to System V or BSD >>is like having a root canal... > >We've had plenty of reports of it going up with minimal pain on systems >that we know are pretty impure. :-) Peter's experience seems to have >been unusual. hmmm, anyone who thinks that my v7 is anything like a "standard" BSD or Sys V should think again. The only hassles i had got ironed out in the alpha test (ie global scope on struct members & identifiers unique in first 7 bytes). i'm VERY happy with it, and now have almost no trouble reinstalling after updates. i've redirected followups to news.software.b, where they really belong. alan. -- Alan Hargreaves (vk2mgl) SysCleric alan@numm.nu.oz Phone: (049) 685 597 University Computing Services, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia. Hacker: One who accidentally destroys. Wizard: One who recovers afterwards.
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (02/08/90)
I found C news quite portable to an old 16 bit int Sys III system that usually has problems compiling distributed software. As I recall, the only problem was with the compiler not liking (void) on macros. -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us or b-tech!zeeff