rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly) (12/10/90)
Has anyone ported appropriate software to Coherent for reading and posting news? Where can I get sources, executables, etc? I am using version 3.1.0. Thanks in advance! Rick Kelly Charles River Data Systems 508-626-1011 rmk@frog.UUCP
emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) (12/11/90)
In article <21488@frog.UUCP>, rmk@frog.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: > > Has anyone ported appropriate software to Coherent for reading > and posting news? Where can I get sources, executables, etc? > I am using version 3.1.0. > As was discussed much in comp.unix.internals coherent has a SEVERE limitation in that you are limited to small (64k data 64k stack) memory model. I DOUBT that any news software will work except MAYBE a hack of C-NEWS. -- Mark A. Emanuele V.P. Engineering Overleaf, Inc. 500 Route 10 Ledgewood, NJ 07852-9639 attmail!overlf!emanuele (201) 927-3785 Voice (201) 927-5781 fax emanuele@overlf.UUCP
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (12/16/90)
emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele) writes: > As was discussed much in comp.unix.internals coherent has a SEVERE limitation in > that you are limited to small (64k data 64k stack) memory model. I DOUBT that > any news software will work except MAYBE a hack of C-NEWS. Actually, it's not that hard. A while ago, I was trying to get C News running under PC/IX, which is a version of System III put out by IBM for the PC-XT. It worked just fine, with almost no local modifications -- mostly because C News does a lot of things in shell scripts, and the C programs it uses are all small enough to fit in PC/IX's split I&D environment. I did have to use the dbz that came with C News, though, because the dbm that PC/IX came with was too big and caused expire to dump core. The readnews (rna) that C News comes with didn't compile, but I don't really consider that a problem. Rn v4.3 (PL unknown, it's been so long) also compiled just fine, but you had to disable most of the configurable features and reduce some of the internal buffer sizes. No, reading news under Coherent won't be fun, and you definitely won't be able to compile the newer newsreaders such as trn or nn. But it *is* possible. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" ..!umich!leebai!mudos!mju |