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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3 and News 3.0
Summary: More problems
Message-ID: <840@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 3 Oct 89 16:28:29 GMT
References: <8910021303.AA01805@edison.CHO.GE.COM>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jarfalla, Sweden
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In article <8910021303.AA01805@edison.CHO.GE.COM> rja  writes:

>  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.  

I got a copy of TMNN 7.8 sent to me and tried to bring it up on an Encore
Multimax running UMAX V 2.2. There were a couple of problems with
Makefile.dst, a few source files that needed to be corrected and so on.
After a couple of evening's worth of work, I succeeded to compile it without
any errors, but, after having installed the package, expire wouldn't run,
even though I asked it to rebuild the history file from the existing news
files. I got some error with the history file. The install script created
.../history, where it really should've been history.{pag,dir,map} (or
something similar; anyway, three files). I created those (empty) files,
but expire still wouldn't work. So I finally gave up.

This is absolutely not a flame. The source looks very well written and
easily maintainable. It's just that it needs some further work to compile
and run properly on a number of machines. It's still a beta release, after
all, and I'd love to bring it up on our system.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB