Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rick From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: several problems with news software Message-ID: <44018@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 17:20:43 EDT Article-I.D.: beno.44018 Posted: Fri Jul 10 17:20:43 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:00:18 EDT References: <608@nonvon.UUCP> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 31 Summary: loud mouthed jerk None of those problems exist in patch level 8. That's why no one else is complaining about them. Before ranting about the poor quality of the FREE software you have received, why don't you check and see where you screwed up. Because thats what has happened, YOU SCREWED UP. I am guessing that you screwed up in applying patch TWO, because that's where the makefile was changed to add rextern.o to the dependancy list for checknews. (Try doing a "make clean;rm -f Makefile.dst defs.h;make -f Makefile.dst". I'll bet it starts working.) I will resist the temptation to say that if you don't like the quality of something you have been given free, write something better. However, the quality of the newscode is actually better than a lot of the software we have paid for. (This does not mean that the news software is high quality stuff.) Welcome to the real world. That's the kind of program you usually get paid to work on. They all don't look like something out of a textbook. It would be nice if they did, but reality isn't like that. A hell of a lot of people have managed to fix little things like that without "days of analysis". It shouldn't have taken more than 10 minutes to find and fix. First you use grep to find the declarations, then you change the make dependency. (Of course this presumes you understand C programs and make.) I believe that the "Solution" you are looking for is to choose a good college after you have graduated from high school and learn some skills so you future employer can assign you to work on other peoples programs as well as your own. ---rick