Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!t4test!chip From: chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.eunice Subject: Re: version 2.10.2 inews under Eunice Message-ID: <1154@t4test.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 21:39:07 EDT Article-I.D.: t4test.1154 Posted: Sun Sep 30 21:39:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 05:43:40 EDT References: <1137@t4test.UUCP> Distribution: net.all.all Organization: Intel Corp./Santa Clara Lines: 33 Summary: 2.10.2 installation kit posted to net.sources Version 2.10.2 news has been running for almost two weeks now on one of our Eunice machines. So, I have posted what it took to net.sources. A couple of comments on what I've seen so far: inews: running fine expire: only run once, but looked like it ran OK batch: looks good vnews: definately buggy, but we don't use it, so I don't care (see note below) readnews: only tried once or twice, but seemed to run (see note below) postnews: seems to run (see note below) sendbatch/unbatch: running fine csendbatch/cunbatch: AAARGH!! I don't know who decided that cunbatch had to be a seperate program instead of an rnews switch, but it doesn't do us any good. Unless you have a source license, you can't hack this into uuxqt. We don't. We can't. AAARGH!! On readnews/vnews: We use Larry Wall's 'rn' news reader. Larry has specifically designed it to run under Eunice. It is a great program. Use it. (Please note...there are also some problems with 'rn' under Eunice. I sent Larry my notes, so expect to see something from either him or me on getting 'rn' going under Eunice.) On postnews: I've written my own version. A long time ago I posted a version which was a hack on Mark Horton's original postnews.c. Much of the 2.10.2 postnews is from these programs. However, since I posted my first version I've been making a lot of changes to it. When cleaned up, I'll be glad to share it. Also included in the deal is a program to send out mail replies with return path optomization.) -- Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara { idi|intelca|icalqa|kremvax|qubix|ucscc } ! t4test ! { chip|news }