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From: mkh@pacific.uucp (michael hamilton)
Subject: cnews?
Message-ID: <1993May3.213012.6981@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 21:30:12 GMT
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Greetings from Pasadena.
First, my testimonial:
I bought coherent 4.0.0.0.0 as soon as it came out, which turned out to
be a BIGGG mistake. Make, awk, and sed were all just buggy enough so
that making it through a makefile was a major chore. In addition, the
lack of an ansi C compiler formed an impenetrable barrier between me and
anything resembling useful software.
Later, Mark Williams Co. decided that they would do a major [sic]
rewrite of gcc, and wed all future use of the compiler under their OS
to their updates of the now very-different code. I said then, and I
say now (although a few comp.os.coherent readers disagree with me)
that this is a reprehensible policy. Adios, coherent.
I downloaded dist.fs, cranked it up, and liked what I saw. I then went
about getting the full distribution going, patched it with the 0.2.2 kit,
and had identically zero problems. I did this on a VERY generica ISA
machine with an adaptec 1542b 115 MB disk, real hercules graphics card
(circa 1985), REAL IBM mono monitor (circa 1983), and 8 MB of memory.
I enabled DES password encryption, put a getty on com2, and am now offering
a good look at 386bsd to anyone that wants to login. 818-951-9632.
With just a little work I was able to get my feed going again (my home
address is mkh%coriolis@usc.edu), and found that the throughput
on my T2500 increased by about 30% to ~900 cps at 9600 baud. Further, I
am now able to feed other sites, whereas under coherent the serial code
would choke whenever uucico was started as a shell (Taylor 1.03). My
point here is that 386BSD is working far better (for my purposes) than my
previous attempt at home *nix. Like orders of magnitude better. Eventually,
I'd like to get PPP going between home and JPL and quit coming to work.
I read here recently that RSI may port IDL to 386BSD... that would really
blow my hair back.
And now for the question:
I can't find a ported news agent. I'm working on cnews, but if I make
substitutions the subst script explodes, and if I don't there is a problem
with multiple defines of the _ftime symbol when compiling expire.
Bogus, dudes. Can someone give me a hint here? My feed is going straight
into the bitbucket with a 'no permission to execute rnews' error every
time I poll, and I'd much rather do news at home.
Thanks for any help - mail works best.
mike
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michael hamilton
mkh@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov / oceanography from space