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From: Dale Heltzer <dheltzer@sparc.isl.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: bsdi 2.1 & uqwk 1.8 (help!)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:20:11 -0500
Organization: InfoNet Inc.
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[Disclaimer:  I ain't a Unix programmer]

Hi,

I'm a subscriber to this ISP who likes to use uqwk to DL mail/news to my 
PC & use my offline reader (YARN .88).

My ISP upgraded to BSDI 2.1 & the uqwk stuff "went away."  I bugged them 
for quite a while to re-install, but got no response.  I finally FTPed 
uqwk 1.8 from  ftp.gte.com with the intention of trying to install it in 
my own /bin/ directory.  The problem with that of course is that I'm not 
knowledgeable enough to make whatever changes in the .h files or whatever 
to make it work.
Further phone calls to my "tech support" (I'm keepin' the quotes, and if 
you're reading this, I ain't apologizing) only got me the flat statement 
that uqwk 1.8 won't work with BSDI 2.1
THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY

So (finally) 
COULD SOMEONE GIVE ME A CLUE AS TO HOW TO PROCEED?  I WANT TO USE MY 
OFFLINE READER AGAIN.
Am I really SOL, or is tech support just unwilling, for whatever reason, 
to do the uqwk mods to make it work with bsdi 2.1?
thanks