simmons@applga.uucp (Steve Simmons) (06/24/88)
Pardon my ignorance, but are these completely separate efforts? If so, does anyone know if they are compatible with each other? -- +- Steve Simmons UNIX Systems Mgr. Schlumberger CAD/CAM -+ + simmons@applga.uucp ...umix!applga!simmons + +- "Opinions expressed are all my own, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc." -+
eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/30/88)
In article <784@applga.uucp>, simmons@applga.uucp (Steve Simmons) writes: >Pardon my ignorance, but are these completely separate efforts? If so, >does anyone know if they are compatible with each other? Yes, 3.0 and C news are completely separate efforts, but they are compatible in the sense that they should interoperate nicely. From my (just possibly biased ;-) point of view as the 3.0 person, the differences between the three major versions can be summed up as: B2.x -- what the world uses now. It works, but it's slow, poorly organized, and haphazardly coded (too many cooks...). C news -- lean, mean and speedy. No readers provided. Brilliant, idiosyncratic coding. Well tested, but some rough edges remain. B 3.0 -- news deluxe. Everything documented, everything modularized. All-new readers as well as transport layer, beginnings of hypertext facilities. Not yet well tested, public beta in progress now. Not quite as whizzingly fast as C news but much easier to install, administer and modify. I'll send you the 3.0 brag-sheet by email (it's already been posted once). -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718