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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!ncar!csn!boulder!ucsu!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!galbrait From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) Subject: Re: cnews Message-ID: <1993Mar28.001710.5222@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 00:17:10 GMT Lines: 37 In article <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> admerlev@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede) writes: >Hi, anybody ported cnews yet? >Thanx for any input. >Arnd > I just did this. I don't know if it has been done before or not though. It is actually pretty easy if you realize, like probably everybody except me has, that /bin/sh doesn't usually work. Get bash from somewhere and replace /bin/sh with bash and things will go _much_ smoother. There was a thread on this, I think in the development group, that I got this idea from. The other problem that I ran into is a missing ftime() call in the 386bsd os. Again, I am pretty clueless about this issue and have no idea what is really supposed to happen with this, but I just rewrote the call using gettimeofday(). The ftime() structure is located in /usr/include/sys/timeb.h. I just wrote a simple function to fill in that structure using the (newer?) structures for gettimeofday(). I am finally almost able to download news from school over my snail modem (2400 baud) at night and read it at my leisure without waiting for the stupid modem all day. I use term to redirect the nntp network port to the server at school which does the actual download. The Linux people who wrote much of this software (term and client programs) were pretty cool about archiving this stuff. I think that it is amazing how much I can do at 2400 baud. It would be pretty hard to just post the cnews binaries because the install makes all kinds of directories and links as well. However, if anybody wants me to explain more about what I did let me know. john galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu