timl@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( TIM LAPIN ) (07/11/89)
Hi once again! There are two more questions that I have in regards to installing News 1) I ran a file called "news_v58a_fix.com" to introduce a series of corrections. Was this a good move? I ask this because in an attempt to run newsbuild.com so as to recompile the various nntp files for an ultrix - vms environment, I noticed the file NEWSDIST.C would not compile. It complained of certain variables not being defined or used properly in the required scope: st, stat_t, s_stat, a_stat. 2) Is it necessary to specify the "ihave/sendme" protocol in NEWS.SYS? How about a batch file for posting? (vms client to ultrix server) Tim Lapin internet: timl@maxwell.concordia.ca
SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) (07/12/89)
In article <967@clyde.Concordia.CA>, timl@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( TIM LAPIN ) writes: > 1) I ran a file called "news_v58a_fix.com" to introduce a series of > corrections. Was this a good move? I ask this because in an attempt > to run newsbuild.com so as to recompile the various nntp files for an > ultrix - vms environment, I noticed the file NEWSDIST.C would not > compile. It complained of certain variables not being defined or used > properly in the required scope: st, stat_t, s_stat, a_stat. You must be running C version 3. The structure of the DEC include files has changed in the latest version of C. I think you will need to include unixio.h to get these defined, although I haven't tried this personally, since we haven't installed the latest C yet. > 2) Is it necessary to specify the "ihave/sendme" protocol in NEWS.SYS? > How about a batch file for posting? (vms client to ultrix server) What you need to specify in NEWS.SYS is how you would like the messages stored on your system so that a batch job can send them to the remote system. If you are going to use IHAVE/SENDME to send to the remote system, then you should specify N in the third field of the NEWS.SYS line for the system in question. If you want the actual messages batched together in standard RFC1036 batches, then you should specify B. If you are using NNTP, you probably want to use N. Then, in the 4th field of the NEWS.SYS line, you will specify a file. NEWS will append the message ID of any article that needs to be sent to this system to this file. Periodically, a batch job should be run which will send these message IDs to the remote system, presumably using the NNTP_FEED program provided with NEWS. There are a couple of examples of such batch jobs in the NEWS distrubition, NEWSSKIM.COM and NEWSSKIM_ALT.COM. +-------------------+-------------------------------------+------------------+ | Bob Sloane \Internet: SLOANE@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU/Anything I said is | | Computer Center \ BITNET: SLOANE@UKANVAX.BITNET / my opinion, not my | | University of Kansas\ AT&T: (913) 864-0444 / employer's. | +-----------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------+