dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu (dean karres) (07/08/89)
My apologies if this has been posted to the wrong group. I am trying to install rn 4.3 on a Vax 8810 running Ultrix-32 ver 3. This site is currently using vn as its news reader and Bnews ver 2.11 as the provider. I have a couple of questions: 1) In init.c in a function called version_check(), the group "net.announce" is searched for. Our site does not get/have this group. I have been told that this group/hierarchy disappeared about a year ago. Is this a major problem? Can I just substitute a group that we do get? 2) As mentioned above I have a copy of version 4.3 of rn, is there newer production version? If there is I would be interested in getting it. 3) (I may hate myself for this but...) I have used readnews, vn and most recently rn. These are listed in my order of preference. Is there a "better" (from the user's point of view - faster, more powerful/flexible or whatever) news reader than rn? Thanks, Please e-mail any replies to: Dean Karres dkarres@hubcap.clemson.edu ...gatech!hubcap!dkarres
billc@wupulm.UUCP (Bill Canning) (07/09/89)
This isn't really a follow-up, rather it is along the same lines: I have install news2.11 and rn4.3 on an HP 360 running HP-UX 6.2. The patchlevel for news was ca. 34, and for rn it was 14. If I understand correctly, rn should check the Xref: line in the header and be able to determine if each article has been read in a different newsgroup, and if so, skip it. You may have guessed that this does not happen on my system. I have done verbose header displays, and the Xref: line is there, and is correct, but rn is ignoring it. I assume that the fault is in rn, so let me add that I configured rn with the ``Configure'' shell script provided with the package, and made no other changes to the Makefile or the header files. Any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated. Please send e-mail to wupost.wustl.EDU!wupulm!billc, as I am not sure the wugate router knows about wupulm. Thanks, Bill Canning (billc%wupulm@wupost.wustl.EDU)