carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (10/18/89)
If anyone is interested, I have patches for NNTP for the NeXT. Since the whole thing is almost 900 lines line, I will just give the descrpition of it. If you want the whole thing, drop me a note. I will post the patch if there is enough interest. ============ I originally modified the nntp.1.5 source from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu for the NeXT machine, to interface with the UIUC notes system. This required: 1. disabling load checking, because nntp doesn't run as kmem 2. disabling dbm hashing, because we use notes, not inews 3. changing some key directories. uxc has since replaced nntp.1.5 with nntp.1.5.6, so I can't readily tell which changes are mine or uxc's. Anyway, the patch is relative to the virgin nntp.1.5 from ucbvax. To install, -1. Get the patch program, if you don't have it. 0. Install UIUC notes (outside scope of this patch) 1. Obtain nntp.1.5 source from ucbvax.berkeley.edu 2. put this patch file in nntp/mrcnext.patch 3. cd to nntp directory 4. say "patch -p6 < mrcnext.patch" 5. read README.mrcnext Steps 2-5 should take about 10 minutes max. Note that ucbvax is VERY SLOW during the day; I suggest you wait until after 5pm PST/PDT beforing trying FTP. Tell me how it works out. Brad Carlson carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu ==================== [ The patch itself is about 900 lines long. ] -------------------- Brad Carlson <carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> or <brad-carlson@uiuc.edu> University of Illinois--Micro Resource Center--NeXT guru