Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!edison.cho.ge.com!rja
From: rja@edison.cho.ge.com (rja)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Ultrix 3 and News 3.0
Message-ID: <8910021303.AA01805@edison.CHO.GE.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 89 13:03:13 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: rja 
Lines: 26


  I copied the News 3.0/TMNN sources via anonymous FTP from Berkeley a couple
of weeks back and have spent some frustrating time trying to bring it up here
on edison.   I suspect that the problems lie mostly with Ultrix peculiarities,
but the folks working on News 3.0 need to know that none of the shell scripts
to do automatic configuration and such work properly under Ultrix 3.x.  

  So I tweaked the header files and tried to then run 'make install' --
no dice.  I have a number of compilation errors and can't make any progress.
If I had more time to play with, I'd try to fix things (but I haven't the time).

  I'm looking forward to the official release of News 3.0 and hope that it
can be brought up here eventually.  This shouldn't be misconstrued as criticism
of the News 3.0 folks -- I'm grateful that folks are even working on the
news software.  

  The other thing about B News 3.0 is that it seems to be tightly coupled to
the supplied news readers and I'm uncomfortable with that.  We have users
here that use all of ( readnews, vnews, rn ) and aren't going to switch newsreaders.
I hope that B News 3.0 will be compatible with all of these ( or supply the
sources to current patched versions that will run fine with 3.0 transport).
I'm hoping that I misunderstood the warnings in the TMNN documentation about
this...

  Ran
  rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM