Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!uunet!sdrc!crken From: crken@sdrc.UUCP (Ken Shackelford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: problems with News expire on HP 9000/840 Summary: Another fix Message-ID: <345@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 13:12:20 GMT References: <124@uceng.uc.edu> <5950011@hpccc.HP.COM> Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati Lines: 21 In article <5950011@hpccc.HP.COM>, okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes: > In article <124@uceng.uc.edu>, kamat@uceng.uc.edu (Govind N. Kamat) writes: > > > I have been having problems with News 2.11.14 ever since I > > installed it on our HP 9000/840 running HP-UX (HP's version > > of System V with Berkeley enhancements). The problems are > > mainly with expire. > > One problem I have had with expire is with the ndir.o module. This > will cause expire to run funny. If you manually compile expire without > ndir.o, expire should work okay. Also, there is a preprocessor variable (HP9K5) that can be used to fix this problem (our 9000/825 works fine). I believe it is referenced in the file "ndir.h". Ken Shackelford (The Wizard of Odd) UUCP: uunet!sdrc!crken ----- The pen is mightier than the sword. Only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.