ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) (03/06/91)
Has anyone had any problems getting B News 2.11 to work under Xenix on a 386? The routines compile just fine, but any attempt to post news or run anything else results in an illegal instruction - buss error core dump. Alternatively, what versions of netnews software do various people have running?
ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) (03/07/91)
ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) writes: > Has anyone had any problems getting B News 2.11 to work under Xenix on > a 386? SCO apparently have got it to work. You can ftp B News 2.11 binaries as compiled by SCO for Xenix from ftp.uu.net:/sco-archive/xnx143.{v1.Z,v2.Z,ltr} but I don't understand why a new news site would want to run B News. Have you considered running C News instead ? You can't possibly have that much spare CPU to throw away, surely ? -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)
ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc) (03/08/91)
In article <1991Mar7.080422.14080@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
:[edit query from me about getting B News 2.11 to work]
:SCO apparently have got it to work. You can ftp B News 2.11
:binaries as compiled by SCO for Xenix from
:ftp.uu.net:/sco-archive/xnx143.{v1.Z,v2.Z,ltr} but I don't understand
:why a new news site would want to run B News. Have you considered
:running C News instead ? You can't possibly have that much spare CPU
:to throw away, surely ?
I ftp'ed the stuff and it appeared to load up ok, it did complain about
a file missing though (still got to track down which one is missing). I
wanted to get up B News mostly because I'm familar with it (ie. lazy).
From what I've read, C News will be a lot better in terms of cpu, but I'm
not familar enough with Xenix to answer the billion or so questions about
do I have feature x, y, z, etc, etc. As for spare CPU, well, I'm suffering
partial news withdrawl and I need to get a fix at home :-).