tomc@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tom Corsetti) (03/22/89)
Hi!
I'm posting this for a friend who is trying to install the USENET news
in a client configuration on an apollo. All he told me is that he is
having problems getting the public domain software to compile on the
Apollo. Since I have virtually no Apollo experience, I volunteered to
post this article for him. If anyone out there has accomplished this
feat, a brief outline of what you did would be very much appreciated.
Thanks very much in advance!
- Tom
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Greenbelt Maryland * * * * bitnet - tomc at dftbitdennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel) (03/22/89)
> ... trying to install rrn in a client configuration ...
I have rrn working fine on a ring of SR9.7 Apollos using a 4.3 BSD VAX
as a server. I got an already working version of rrn (v4.3 patch 39)
from one of the VAXes, and then applied some changes sent to me by
Woody Kellum (lwk@caen.engin.umich.edu). Because of the filename/case
sensitivity/etc non-UNIXisms, you need to do all the installation work
in a Cshell, and you have to run rrn in a Cshell if you want to execute
Pnews or Rnmail (because they have caps in their names, you see...).
--Dennis
Dennis Cottel Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152
(619) 553-1645 dennis@nosc.MIL sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis