brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (03/29/91)
Archive-name: news/c-news/brendan-c-news-speedups/1991-03-26 Archive: ftp.cs.widener.edu:/pub/cnews.set.shar.Z [192.55.239.132] Original-posting-by: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Original-subject: CNews Speedups Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) This package implements anne.jones, tear, and spacefor in C, to help speed up CNews a bit. They've been updated to include all of the changes/additions/whatever made with the March patches. Check out README and the top of the Makefile for instructions on how to build and install 'em. This set differs from the previous in three respects .. first, it doesn't include rnews, cuz it hasn't been rewritten yet; and second, you HAVE to have libcnews.a from your CNews build to make anne.jones. If you've already patched your version of CNews and didn't keep the stuff around, the README in here includes instructions on how far to go into doit.bin to get it without going through the entire build again. Also, anne.jones now contains the ability to be built to use 'minimalist' Message-ID's. (aka 7-chars instead of 16+) It only uses characters that shouldn't cause problems with news software or odd shells (as has been discussed recently here). Please write me with any problems, etc. Brendan [1400+ lines deleted. --Ed.]