henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/03/89)
Minix users might be interested in picking up C News from comp.sources.unix. (Andy had actually asked us to see that it was cross-posted to the Minix group, but that particular request got lost somewhere between us and the c.s.u. moderator. Sorry about that; we had some mailer problems that are probably to blame.) This is a freely-redistributable netnews system that is both faster and cleaner than B News. It ought to run fine under Minix; in particular, it does not need >16 bits of address space. (Actually, I can think of one possible problem: C News does use the "+" modes of fopen(), which were present but *undocumented* in V7 and hence [if my recollection is correct] did not make it into the original Minix. Fixes for that have appeared here, I believe.) -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu