evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (06/13/89)
My suggested topic for the next UU meeting: (June 28 at FLIS)
Cnews: The Final Frontier
Maybe some of us who are installing it can give an overview. Having
seen it for a few hours, the most noticable features appear to be:
- lists of files to be batched are in /usr/spool/news/out.going, not
/usr/lib/news/batch. Actually, a number of things appear to be
subtly different (from alpha-Cnews) in the way batches are made up;
- Documentation is MUCH better, and there are a number of articles
which give one a bit of insight into Geoff's and Henry's approaches;
- Installation is also easier. The shell script provided to accomplish
most of this, build, isn't as intuitive as Larry Wall's Configure, but
it appears to do the trick;
- Ihave/sendme is now implemented, though your troff needs to know 'pic'
type graphics to adequately print the documentation for it;
- Expire, in a rather elegant way, now allows articles to remain in the
history file after they've been expired;
- Much greater NNTP support;
- The method for locking processes (and the 'ln' bug that Chris found)
has been simply resolved;
- Suggested cron and 'rc' files are supplied;
- bencode and bdecode are supplied as replacements for uuencode and
uudecode. (Between the new ones, the old ones, and Brad Templeton's
recently-posted 'abe' encoder, will we have incompatability problems?)
- News-via-mail facilities are there now;
- They've actually included a program called 'superkludge';
So is this an appropriate topic?
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In article <1989Jun13.132614.27100@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes: >So is this an appropriate topic? Sounds good to me. :-) Geoff and I will probably attend, in fact. If coaxed, we might even say something. :-) :-) -- NASA is to spaceflight as the | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology US government is to freedom. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu