Path: utzoo!yunexus!stpl!yunccn!nccnat!root From: root@nccnat.UUCP (Paul Shields) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Readnews for the PC Keywords: B News 2.11 #8 for MS-DOS...coming soon to a network near you Message-ID: <290@nccnat.UUCP> Date: 7 May 88 15:49:16 GMT Article-I.D.: nccnat.290 Posted: Sat May 7 11:49:16 1988 References: <1259@uokmax.UUCP> <1280@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> Reply-To: shields@yunccn.UUCP Organization: York University, Toronto Canada Lines: 44 >In article <1280@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> jal@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) writes: >>I got a version of uucp for the PC working recently and >>am now interested in getting a newsfeed. Has anyone converted >>a news reading program (such a rn, vnews, etc) over to the >>PC or will I have to work on it myself? Yes. I have. It does rnews, expire, batching and unbatching. The user interface is readnews. [...] >Hmm..I remember some time back that a "new site" map entry appeared from >someone claiming to be running B News 2.11 under MS-DOS. Don't know >anything more about it. That's me. It uses the UULINK package by Lauren Weinstein. I'll have it ready for beta testing real soon now. Total size is about 250K worth of context-diff's from Patch level 8 of Netnews. The remaining work is in fixing some memory limitations on the PC, massaging rnews and recmail, and documenting the patches. [...] > If you're considering porting News to the PC, it'll take a lot of work. >I know, I started on a port of C News to MS-DOS before giving up and >going on to other things. The netnews software is written for a Unix >environment and heavily uses some features (links, pipes, fork) that >require a good deal of effort to work around. The patches for the most part serialise the forks and simulate pipes and links. The hardest one here was rnews, which in its current state has been cracked and twisted to make it work. > You'll also find that, as >on any large software project on the PC, that a large portion of your >time will be spent tracking down bugs caused by broken compilers. Maybe >someday we'll have a real C compiler for the PC, but I'm not holding >my breath. I agree. I use two compilers, Lattice 3.20, and Microsoft 5.0. There are problems with both. Lattice doesn't have complete Unix enough libraries, and I can't get MSC to open more than 16 files at once (req'd for expire.) -- Paul Shields, shields@yunccn.UUCP If you think you have a subconscious, or yunccn!nccnat!root you have a software integration problem.