gordon@sneaky.TANDY.COM (Gordon Burditt) (09/26/88)
In response to my article about inews deadlock while processing "sendme" control messages on systems like Xenix that use mandatory file locking, I received a dozen requests for a version of News 2.11 which works on Xenix. All of these requests contained such an awful mess of %'s, @'s and !'s in the return addresses I can't figure out what host the sender was on, so I can't reply by mail. Yes, I have changes to make News 2.11 work on Xenix. Yes, I can make them available. Most of the changes relate to making the HOME conditional work right (i.e. the news directories are ~news/spool and ~news/lib, evaluated at runtime, and most uses of #defined string constants like SPOOLDIR outside of ?pathinit.c are wrong) and personal taste in configuration. I DO NOT have changes to make News 2.11 work on a *[012]86 processor (my system uses a 68000, which has 32 bit integers, no memory models, no funny 64k limits related to malloc(), etc.) and apparently everyone thinks "*86 CPU" when hearing the word "Xenix". So probably nobody is going to want the changes. If anyone still wants the changes (relative to 2.11.14 unmangled source): - Use email, do not post. - Include a valid RFC976 address (which has NO @'s in it) or a uucp path. Put it in the body of the mail message, not in the headers. - If you are on ARPA, any mail traffic is required to further the purposes of the Government (which are: killing people, forcibly taking property from people, enslaving people, and wasting resources) so either I'm not allowed to send it or you are using it for an immoral purpose and I don't want to send it. - If you really want the changes, I'd be interested in an explanation of why. I included the locking fix in my last posting, and there aren't any *86 fixes. Gordon L. Burditt ...!killer!ninja!sneaky!gordon