henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (02/10/91)
Archive-name: news/c-news/c-news/1991-02-09 Archive: cs.toronto.edu:/pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z [128.100.1.65] Original-posting-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Original-subject: Re: Where is latest C News for HP-UX 7.0? Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <361@camdev.comm.mot.com?> sscott@camdev.comm.mot.com (Steve Scott) writes: >... Where are the latest sources? The current C News distribution can currently always be retrieved by anonymous ftp from cs.toronto.edu in file pub/c-news/c-news.Z (a shell archive) or pub/c-news/c-news.tar.Z (a tar archive) and the complete set of patches can also be found on cs.toronto.edu in the directory pub/c-news/patches. FTP during our peak hours (12h00-17h00 Eastern) is not encouraged. >What is >the latest version/patch level? The latest patch was 15-Dec-1990. I'd hoped to get another out -- some small fixes and the usual run of routine upgrades -- before I left for Boskone, but that now looks unlikely, so prognosis is that the next one will be late this month. >Are there extensive modifications >required to make it play on hp-ux? Not that anybody's told us in particular... assuming you have a working shell. If you can run something like this: x=y if test " $x" != " y" then echo oops fi and not have it say "oops", you should be all right; otherwise you're in for tedious surgery on shell scripts to work around this bug, which HP appears to have introduced in the course of trying to make the shell 8-bit clean. Maybe they haven't propagated it onto the Apollos... -- "Maybe we should tell the truth?" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Surely we aren't that desperate yet." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry