dv@unicom.UUCP (David W. Vezie) (04/06/88)
Speaking of clearing up confusion. There's one thing that I am
still unclear about. Asside from Xref code, will rn work with 3.0 news?
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{{sun,ucbvax}!pixar,pacbell}!unicom!dv | it's SDI I can't stand"eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (04/07/88)
In article <304@unicom.UUCP>, dv@unicom.UUCP (David W. Vezie) writes: >Speaking of clearing up confusion. There's one thing that I am >still unclear about. Asside from Xref code, will rn work with 3.0 news? I have added DOXREFS support to 3.0. Here's the caveat on rn use from the READ.ME file: | NON-STANDARD READERS | |If you are using an rn or vn distribution that hasn't been modified to use |3.0 file formats, you may have some trouble with the new .newsrc files. | |Specifically, if you generate a .newsrc with readnews or vnews and then |run unmodified rn or vn on it, rn/vn may not understand some of the 3.0 |constructs like unsubscribed-discussion IDs (generated by the ug command |from readnews/vnews), or keyboard macro definitions, or the new 'option' |line format that allows you to embed options for several different readers |in your .newsrc. See news.5 in the man directory for details. | |Bob McQueer (bobm@rtech), author of vn, is working on a 3.0 conversion kit |for vn. Bruce Bergman (bruceb@telesoft) is working on retrofitting the 3.0 |service libraries to rn. Until these make it into a patch, use caution. And that's the way it is. The sources will go to comp.sources.unix as soon as I get the NNTP and NFS changes back from Erik Fair and Mel Pleasant. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718